It would be wonderful to identify pollen in honey and from pollen gathered by bees. You can do that with a 400x-1000x microscope for a couple of hundred dollars and some training in staining techniques. So when I heard about… Continue Reading →
We were recently gifted a hive from a family whose beekeeper son left for college. Having moved hives before, I figured it would be easy. This time I was wrong: Bees bearded up the front and back of the hive… Continue Reading →
I recently got an email from Frank Linton. Frank works at Mitre Corp and has been interested in hive monitoring for a long time. Last year, he organized the first workshop on hive monitoring at Eastern Apicultural Society’s annual conference… Continue Reading →
You may remember about one year ago, I posted a video of robotic flying multicopters building a structure. I was so intrigued that I have built my own robotic quadcopter based on the Arducopter design with the intent of engineering a… Continue Reading →
This is in response to Robert Siegel’s June 20th feature “Going After ‘Hackavists’”. I am one of those people who likes to “tinker or modify hardware or software”. I “support free speech”, and I am grateful for the transparency that… Continue Reading →
Students at the GRASP (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception) Lab at the University of Pennsylvania have succeeded in training flying helicopters to assemble simple structures. These flying robots buzz like bees, they collaborate like bees, and the structures that… Continue Reading →
There is no doubt that Julian Assange, creator and Editor-In-Chief of WikiLeaks, is a hacker. That he hacked into Department of Defense computers in his twenties is not up for debate. But the question I ask is in regard to… Continue Reading →
This site explores the confluence of beekeeping and technology. It is targeted at: beekeeper or bee lover scientist, engineer, inventor, DIYer The goal of this site is to explore the overlap between beekeeping, honey bees, and technology. NOTE: We are… Continue Reading →
There are so many similarities between ethical hackers and beekeepers that I figured they must have been separated at birth. Consider this:
Nathan Myhrvold was Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer until 1999. By the time he left Microsoft, he could afford to do whatever he wanted. He chose the life of a wealthy virtuous hacker. Sort of an aging Dexter. Yes, I am… Continue Reading →
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