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Would targeting the distinctive mosquito whine be feasible? You could have several bluetooth mikes scattered around the room for good triangulation
by swayvil 6y ago
Would targeting the distinctive mosquito whine be feasible?
You could have several bluetooth mikes scattered around the room for good triangulation
- danielheath 6y agoThere’s a reason bats hunt by sonar instead of vision.
- bigiain 6y agoTo be fair though, part of that is because they hunt at night. There are a few places here in Sydney where you see a remarkable cloud of bats feeding in bright light - the lights over the harbour bridge and several of the tax buildings bordering the Botanic Gardens regularly have flocks of bats whirling around presumably attracted to all the insects flying in the bright lights...
- danielheath 6y agoThere's lots of food that only comes out at night; if it weren't bats, some other predator species would have developed sonar to hunt them.
- squarefoot 6y agoAudio would surely be the way to go, IMO, although I would avoid Bluetooth and generally any non essential digital transport both because of latency and possible compression artifacts. One could trick the mosquitoes into flying through a small restricted area in which wires wouldn't pose a problem by making it the only possible way to some bait for example, then setting mikes and traps in there.
- xxs 6y agoBluetooth has too much latency, 50-100ms even quite optimistically. There are a lot better ways to have a custom solution.
- janoc 6y agoOr you could just spray RAID or something similar and kill all the mosquitoes there for pennies. No laser, no bluetooth, no microphones. And if you want to actually solve the mosquito issue, don't have standing water around. Or make sure fish and frogs can live in it. They love eating mosquito larvae. Not this boondoggle. Remember, engineering is also about realizing that the fact that you are able to do something doesn't always mean you should.
- swayvil 6y agoit's a good point