A cicada warning system with Arduino
— April 2nd, 2013
This spring, patches of the East Coast will turn buzzy and crunchy because of … bugs. Periodical cicadas (or Magicicadas) usually live underground but after 13 or 17 years, they emerge synchronously and in tremendous numbers to look for a mate. Radiolab launched a campaign to predict their arrival with a bit of DIY science and using an Arduino UNO.
You can follow the instructions of the simple tutorial on how to monitor soil temperature until it reaches 64° F (17,7 C°) — when the cicadas should start to emerge. The homemade temperature kit will be reporting the findings back to to Radiolab so they can put them on a map and share crowdsourced observations with the world. Get ready for Swarmageddon, watch the video below!
Categories:Arduino
April 2nd, 2013 at 17:03:18
Super wasteful use of technology!
A thermometer does the same thing.
April 2nd, 2013 at 22:10:09
Thanks for sharing – also will help tell me when to plant my veggies this year.
I don’t see how anything built with an Arduino could be a wasteful use of technology. I think the point of this is that it also communicates with Radiolab. A regular thermometer doesn’t do the trick either, you need a probe thermometer to get these readings. If if I loved being a consumer and buying tons of crap I don’t need, I could get a probe thermometer and manually email the results to Radiolab… ? That somehow seems far more wasteful than using components which I can reuse in about a million different ways.
April 4th, 2013 at 06:58:17
i just love cute techie chicks with arduinos 😀
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April 29th, 2013 at 17:38:01
Solid article. I study something similar here at Arkansas Tech University.
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