May 2011 Issue of IEEE Spectrum
The flagship magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Spectrum, has featured an article on BeeHacker.com written by Paul Wallich in their May, 2011 issue. You can click here to check out the online version of the article.
But that is only the beginning of the story. Less than two days after the IEEE Spectrum article went online, Popular Science and Discovery Channel picked it up. Click on the links to view those articles. There are now scores of smaller site and blogs all posting articles on Beehacker.
Update May 3d: Add Wired.co.uk to the mix. Click here to read the article.
June 8, 2011 at 10:42 am
Congratulations for all the recent media coverage. I’m a student IEEE member from Spain and a beekeeper. I would like to do my final thesys on something related to beekeeping. I’m very busy at the moment, but I will come back to you in about two weeks. I did the last spanish translation of APIMO open beekeeping software.
May 4, 2011 at 7:40 pm
There are several attempts to detect swarming electronically. The Apidictor proposes to predict swarming more than a week in advance. Right before a swarm does occur, it has been reported that temperature increases. Of course, a lot of these published claims are just that.
I need some electronic help because I had two hives swarm last year and I expected the same this year. I hung a nuc in a tree but so far I have seen little evidence of swarm activity. I wonder if the rains and tornadoes could have dampened their vagabond spirits?
May 4, 2011 at 1:00 pm
An electronic indication of swarming intent would be most useful. Any chance?
Seriously though, I’ve noticed that the more experienced I get as a beekeeper the more I can tell about my bees wellbeing, just by ‘feel’. I could be imagining this or perhaps I’m picking up cues given by the bees? So it’s interesting to read that electronic devices are on the way to quantify our bees’ behaviour.
Andrew