{"id":15989,"date":"2016-12-02T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2016-12-02T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:44:21","slug":"what-music-do-birds-like-find-out-with-a-raspberry-pi-a-camera-and-loads-of-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15989","title":{"rendered":"What music do birds like? 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Masquerading as a bird table, PandoraBird plays music in the background while birds eat from the table. A Raspberry Pi\u00a0plays the music and has a camera for monitoring how long the birds stay on the table. If the bird is still there when the music ends, the Pi queues up another from the same genre to see if the bird will stay to listen. <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethdemaray.org\/2016\/01\/24\/pandorabird-identifying-the-types-of-music-that-may-be-favored-by-our-avian-co-inhabitants-at-digihuman-lab-rutgers-university\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more over at Elizabeth&#8217;s site<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2016\/12\/02\/pandorabird-identifying-the-musical-tastes-of-birds-using-a-bird-feeder-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Thanks to Adafruit for noticing this one<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Demaray, in collaboration with computer scientist Ahmed Elgammal and Rutgers University\u2019s Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has developed a way to determine if music affects the moods and habits of birds. Masquerading as a bird table, PandoraBird plays music&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15989\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,70,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-nature","category-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What music do birds like? 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