E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. Sorry about the dirty window - squirrels have been stealing the bird food. Note Still in early development: expect the odd bug and a few unpolished edges, with plenty more features to come. Live on fugleramme.arnegiacomo.dev running from my kitchen window and displaying the actual birds currently heard in my garden (Bergen, Norway).

Hardware, install and operations docs: arnegiacomo.dev/fugleramme How it works Bird NET-Go listens on a mic and handles the classifier. Fugleramme polls its api, matches each species to an illustration, then packs them onto a page, and redraws only when the birds change - on an Inky Impression e-ink panel, and as a web kiosk serving the same view. There's an admin page that lets you configure what to show, and automatic updates and such. If you already run Bird NET-Go, point the frame at it instead - on the same machine or anywhere else reachable from your network.

Tip The e-ink panel is not required, although it's recommended for the intended experience. Without one, Fugleramme runs web-only - show the kiosk on a display over HDMI, or open it from any device on the network. Hardware A Raspberry Pi 5, an Inky Impression 13.3"(Spectra 6), a mic and an A4 frame. Full parts list, recommendations and alternatives: Hardware. Art Half the point of this project is showing off some amazing public-domain natural-history illustrations. Over 800 cut-outs covering more than 400 species, every one taken from a real plate and hand-curated for this project (no art is AI-generated, though some has been retouched with AI). Each detected species is matched to its illustration, background-removed, and packed onto a textured paper page with the larger birds toward the centre, sized by body mass. An empty window shows a bare perch. The plates are Scandinavian, British and central European, so the Nordics, the British Isles and Germany are best covered. Elsewhere not so much (yet). Broader European and North American coverage is in the works! See Adding artwork for manual cutout steps.