Bird Alert IR sensor video.mp4
live recording IR sensor outdoors.mov
For this assignment, I worked with an infrared sensor that I connected to arduino and used the reading to see proximity. The goal from creating this is for having a siren or noise go out to alert birds when they're too close from my glass windows/doors.
Hundreds of birds die after crashing into New York City glass towers. Hundreds of birds migrating over New York City have died after crashing into the city's glass buildings.
'Overwhelming': hundreds of migrating birds die after crashing into NYC glass towers
So I decided to create this sensor that alerts birds before they crash.
Sending a sound signal at an assigned proximity, which will hopefully scare them away before collision.
Avian hearing is most sensitive to sounds from about 1 to 4 kHz, although they can hear higher and lower frequencies.
I did a couple of experiments trying to:
1- connect an LCD screen to Arduino Uno
2- connect a PIR sensor