Hey all! Black Mammalogists Week is giving away two sets of 5 Boomboxes from Freaklabs.
BoomBox is an open source device that attaches to a camera trap (or trailcam) to create an Automated Behavioural Response (ABR) system for wildlife research and conservation.
To enter this giveaway:
Just tell us what you would do with 5 Boomboxes below! AND
If you have a twitter, bluesky, instagram, or threads account, please follow us and tell us on there!
Giveaway NOW ends 09/21 at 5pm PST!
17 September 2024 6:16pm
Update: the giveaway for these Boomboxes ends now September 21st at 5pm PST!
Please share with your networks and tell us what you would do with 5 FREE Boomboxes!
Check out the livestream from yesterday to learn what you can do with them!
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17 September 2024 8:22pm
This looks really interesting and could be very useful in predator studies or simply testing deterent measures.
I would love to test this on our property to better capture photos of brown heynas, cheetahs, jackals, african wildcats, and especially the extremely elusive black footed cat (which we've never been able to photograph yet) in response to prey animal sounds. Normally we just get a glimpse or single photo of these, but hopefully they might be intriqued by sounds and stick around for a while.
This could also help with protecting infrastructure - elephants are afraid of bees and testing the effectiveness of various bee sound recordings to find the most effective version, or to test if the current version is still effective, would speed up development. And we're getting tired of replacing waterlines being dug up :-)
20 September 2024 6:30pm
Just a reminder that this giveaway is ending TOMORROW (SATURDAY) at 5pm PST!
There are people in this community who need (or know someone who needs) some FREE ABRs to connect to their camera traps! Used for research or for human-wildlife conflict needs! Share with your network!
Check out other uses and learn more about them from our Monday Tech Panel:
To enter this giveaway:
Just tell us what you would do with 5 Boomboxes below! AND
If you have a twitter, bluesky, instagram, or threads account, please follow us and tell us on there!
22 September 2024 1:26am
We've drawn the winners of the 2 sets of 5 Freaklabs BoomBoxes and they are twitter's Xim_Neri and MustelidMay!
Thank you to those who entered the random drawing from this site!
Asia Murphy