arnegiacomo/fugleramme
E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations.
Seismograph spotted this repository 45 hours before GitHub Trending.
About the project
E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi that detects birds in real time by audio using BirdNET-Go and displays them as hand-cut 1800s illustrations.
Useful for
- Run local bird detection from a microphone and display species on an e-ink panel.
- Set up a web kiosk showing current birds on an HDMI display or another networked device.
- Deploy in Docker alongside BirdNET-Go on a Linux box with a USB mic.
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 79 stars so far today, about 121 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 9 per day, so that's 14× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 1.5× that of the previous week and a half.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations” — 2,309 points, 3 days ago.
- About 10 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @zzzeek (1,590 followers).
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 3,031
- Stars in a day
- 121
- Forks
- 75
- Issues and pull requests
- 93
- Watchers
- 11
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v0.22.1 · September 17, 2026
- Created
- July 8, 2026
- Last push
- September 18, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations2,309 points, September 15, 2026
Spotted in
- September 18, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #4, +592 stars; Spotted on Hacker News
- September 17, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #4, +712 stars; Spotted on Hacker News
- September 16, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- September 15, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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