Luke Ditria PhD

A behind the scenes look at what we're working on at AutoEcology! I've been building a few more versions of the Edge Compute Wildlife monitoring systems ready for use!
#ecology #edgecompute #technology

I've often struggled to power my Raspberry Pi projects off-grid for long durations. I think that people who haven't tried it are underestimating how much power a Raspberry Pi needs... That's why we developed the PV PI, a #RaspberryPi HAT that can provide reliable solar battery power!

Upgrading my #RaspberryPi Zero powered mini #AI Wildlife Monitor with the PV PI for solar battery power!
Thanks to everyone who has backed the #kickstarter so far!

Use the PV PI to solar power your Raspberry Pi project! The PV PI can power your Raspberry Pi and other HATs from a high capacity LiFePo4 battery while charging it from a large solar panel! ##raspberrypi

It also uses the UART connection from pins 14/15. You can use extra long stacking headers to stack multiple HATs

Solar power your Raspberry Pi with the PV PI! Our kickstarter is now live! Link in Bio!
#raspberrypi

The code for the mini version is public yes.

Yes, my larger version gets its location with gps and uses sunrise and sunset times to schedule wake times. You can do this with the Witty Pi if you want, but you have to write your own scheduling code, which I wanted to avoid for this version to make it easier for people to make.

Species identification, I'm training my own models

YouTube video by Luke Ditria Portable Raspberry Pi Wildlife detector: Build Video!

Video here youtu.be/qhY_3XCSYsM

The full build video for my portable Raspberry Pi Powered wildlife identifier is now up on YouTube! ##raspberrypi #3dprinting

Solar Powered #RaspberryPI?
Currently working on a HAT that can provide power and perform high power solar charging (~100W) of high capacity LiFePo4 batteries while monitoring voltage and power usage! This will allow us to power a PI 24/7 in remote locations while running computer vision tasks!

Luke Ditria On this channel, I share my passion for Electronics, Machine Learning and Data Analysis through personal projects and tutorials based on my experience teaching deep learning at a university level. I h...

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In my latest Substack, I share the common flaws in thinking I’ve encountered when talking to business leaders about their AI ideas.

The biggest one?
Asking questions their data can’t answer.

Check out the article here.
lukeditria.substack.com/p/why-ai?r=6...

There was a lot of interest in working out how you could create capacitive touch buttons out of the 3D printed translucent LED light pipes, so I gave it a go!
I'll be posting more details soon!
#3dprinting #arduino

I've used the Raspberry Pi AI Camera and Raspberry Pi zero to create this mini wildlife monitor that can detect and identify birds! #RaspberryPi

There was a lot of interest in my LED display, 3D printed with translucent filament to create light pipes. This was just a proof-of-concept enclosure, but people seem to be interested in having a "ready to use" version. What characters/symbols would you like to see on the display? #3dprinting #esp32

I do for the LED matrix display.

makerworld.com/en/@user_392...

I've used some Translucent filament to 3D print a window into the lid of my enclosure for a small LED matrix display! So we can display device information without exposing the electronics to the elements! #3dprinting #esp32

Build montage for the mini version of my AI Wildlife Monitor using the Raspberry Pi AI Camera and Raspberry Pi zero! #raspberrypi #electronics #makers

Mini version of my AI Wildlife Monitor using the Raspberry Pi AI Camera and Raspberry Pi zero! #raspberrypi #camera #Wildlife

Testing out a battery spot welder! I'm looking to create custom large battery packs for my projects!
#raspberrypi

YouTube video by Luke Ditria AI, Raspberry Pi, Thermal Cameras, and Kangaroos!

Latest update video for my AI Wildlife Monitoring System!
#raspberrypi
youtu.be/6DF2HHipMfM

It's on a pole! The latest version of my AI Wildlife Monitor with its Starvis 2 camera for nighttime monitoring! #ai #camera

Not much sun going into winter... hopefully this is enough for my Raspberry Pi Powered AI wildlife monitoring system!
#raspberrypi

Testing out the latest version of my AI Wildlife Monitor using the Sony Starvis 2 camera for nighttime wildlife monitoring! #RaspberryPi

Just a view of object detection with the thermal camera images #raspberrypi

I've been experimenting with a cheap high resolution thermal camera from a drone with my Raspberry Pi and even got it working with object detection running on the AI HAT #RaspberryPi

Having a look at the results from my Raspberry Pi AI wildlife monitor! I'm using a #RaspberryPi 5 with the AI HAT