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Workshop: Build a bird detector
8 May 2026
In this workshop you'll learn the steps involved in building a bioacoustics monitoring device trained on a local dataset
In this workshop participants will learn how to build their own low cost and low power real time embedded audio classifier. The workshop will be based on the embedded bird detector developed by Matteo Marangoni for the project Chorusing Symbionts. The workshop aims to provide an overview of the steps involved in building a fully customised bioacoustics monitoring device trained on a local dataset. The workshop will cover the process from data collection and data preparation with the use of BirdNET and python scrips, to model training with Edge Impulse and deployment on the Arduino platform with an ESP32 microcontroller. A conceptual overview will be accompanied by hands on work. For the hands on component previous experience with python, Visual Studio Code and Arduino is recommended.
Matteo Holyoke Marangoni combines music with visual art, theatre, and new technologies. He develops robotic instruments and artificial creatures to compose spaces in which sound is experienced with the whole body and all the senses. His work draws inspiration from animal communication, bioacoustics, and ecoacoustics, exploring how sound can mediate relationships between humans, machines, and other life forms, and proposing embodied and ecological notions of intelligence, consciousness and subjecthood.