Post September 12, 2024 1 min read

The Odd Gadget That Plays Bird Songs

This one sounds strange when you describe it: a device that notices somebody entering the room and answers with quiet bird song.

It is built on a cheap microcontroller running open firmware and hooked into Home Assistant, so the presence detection and the sound come from the same system as everything else.

I built it half as a joke. It stayed because the room genuinely feels calmer with it running.

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