Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds
Tap a bird card to the NFC reader to hear one of its calls, identify birds from their vocalizations, and up your bird game!
@hannahilea
Personal website of Hannah Robertson (`@hannahilea`)
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Yesterday's static, today: A Bluetooth speaker for the vintage listener
Listening to modern baseball games through the static of the past, via a Bluetooth speaker in a laser-cut housing modeled from a vintage cathedral radio.
Text of the wild: Receive notifications from your BirdNET-Pi via ntfy
Tutorial for configuring a BirdNET-Pi with ntfy to send push notifications whenever a rare-to-you bird starts yelling
The "Just" Flag
A basic explainer on the :just-flag:'s provenance, usage, and utility
Gaubert or go home: Measuring a flute recital in notes played
Automating symbolic music analysis to answer the pressing question "how many notes did she just play?!"
Introducing the Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era
A tangible music library of streaming service URLs, served by a Rolodex.
From BongoBoard to BongoBored
For sale: DK BongoBoard, never drummed
Telegraph Key(singular)board: Morse for the modern era
.... .- ...- . / -- --- .-. ... . / .-- .. .-.. .-.. / - .-. .- ...- . .-.. / ... - --- .--.
Ensembler: Swipe to match with musicians near you!
An app for building community through playing music, one ensemble at a time. Meet your musical neighbors and make some noise
Autobibliography: December 2025
Link round-up
Autobibliography: Inspirational makers, electronics edition
Link round-up
Learning to learn how to play with electronics
A journey of a thousand doofy hardware projects starts with a single Adafruit blink
Set up BirdNET-Pi on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
Step by step instructions for monitoring your yellingist feathered neighbors.
Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends (and how you can, too!)
Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy.
Button-box timer
A simple box with one button and one job: reminding me to push that button.
Colors! Glass! Glory!
In which a delightful rainbow of glass tiles are turned into mosaic magnets and a GLADOMOSAIK
Autobibliography: May 2025
Link round-up
A year of blogging here---thoughts and plots!
A light retrospective, a bar plot, and a bunch of word clouds walk into a room.
An ode to houseplant programming 🪴
Waxing poetic about hyperlocal phytoid software development
The Botfly Test: Characterizing parasitic automated behavior in online communities
Assessment criteria for bot behavior: is it transparent, prosocial, and unselfish?
LY Drawbot setup: From a box of parts to drawing SVGs
Write-up of getting started with a CNC pen plotter
RSS to inbox: Setting up a mailing list for blog updates
Instructions for how to set up a mailing list to receive notifications about new posts, using RSS, IFTTT, and Google Groups.
Video timelapses with FFmpeg
Documentation for straightforward video editing task.
Autobibliography: January 2025
Link round-up
Slidey doots: Slide whistle as Trombone Champ controller
Project write-up of turning a slide whistle into a wireless controller for the video game Trombone Champ.
Yellow Scream (2024)
Interactive homage to Kim Beom’s Yellow Scream (2012).
Scurrying seagull: CAD-assisted Fliposcope animation
Write-up of a Fliposcope animation created via hand-drawn, watercolored images and animation in Cuttle.
Clapping Music for one flip-disc display: Byte and variations
Reich’s Clapping Music performed on a single electromechanical flip-disc display.
Quick ’n hacky meme making, for fun and no profit
Tutorial on turning screenshots into goofy shareable images.
Obsessed with Cuttle: Parametric CAD for prototyping, producing, and procrastinating
Write-up of a bunch of laser-cut projects designed with Cuttle.
First things first: Make a list
The most important rule when making a list.
Dopamine-driven development (DDD), spite-driven development (SDD), and other DDs
Tongue-in-cheek definitions and description of various X-driven development techniques.
Titles of blog posts I might never write
Braindump of potential blog post titles for as-yet-unwritten pieces.
Clapping Music for two flip-disc displays
Reich’s Clapping Music performed on a pair of electromechanical flip-disc displays.
This website’s structure: A meta post
The structure of this website motivated and described.