Andy Quitmeyer

@hikinghack
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DIY Digital Media in the Wild. All open source. Former official Professor, but still teaching students weird animal interaction nature tech stuff! Lots of upcycling stuff too.
personal instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hikinghack/?hl=en
lab instahttps://instagram.com/digital.naturalism.labs/
lab websitehttps://www.dinalab.net
youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8FNZ2LaT4rJ6uA-o6wHT6w

In celebration of #YearOfTheMoth, the Mothbox team hired an artist in Panama, David Francesco, to create a fun sticker pack so you can more adequately express yourself online via Moths!

Available in @signalapp (and telegram + WhatsApp below!)
#sciart #teammoth
https://signal.art/addstickers/#pack_id=9c35299a635ffc99ea00112c8771d227&pack_key=e5296f25a3d1693809ea4280020df844d6fe5dfc6fc3c9941618cb5ce5b29720

Shipping dozens of Mothboxes from our mobile factory in a friend's basement!
Some folks came to our #Mothbox Workshop during the #ICTC conference and ended up taking the mothboxes they built to the Manu biological Field Station where they've been doing all kinds of cool new stuff! They even got tree climbers to install them in the rainforest canopy!

Last #YearOfTheMoth of my 30's!

Heterogynis penella.
This alpine moth females remain a wingless grub who lays eggs in her old cocoon and then gets devoured by her babies.

#moth #teamMoth #mothweek2026 #mothweekart26 #mothweek

Last year
@wildlabs and ARM gave us another amazing prize to make a new, mass-manufacturable version of the Mothbox! We spent this time learning how to design industrial PCBs with
@kicad , and now have a wonderful version we are distributing around the world!

Check out its specs!

Here's a fun #sciArt challenge for #yearOfTheMoth!

It's a list of weekly neat moths to make art about from now until #mothWeek

I have a fluorescent tattoo of an agouti on my hand to let me quickly test if certain materials let UV light through :)

I gave it to myself with tattoo silicone that people use for lizards, so can't recommend others actually do this.
12:41 PM ยท Mar 12, 2026
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Mothpacker! Created a new visualizer for #Mothbox data I'm excited about!

I smashed some background subtraction AI with a bin packing algorithm and fun pastel backgrounds inspired by @dradriansmith and @specialnothing

The results are fun, and each image represents a slightly different sorting algorithm.

The Mothbox is our latest #openscience #opensource #hardware tool for studying insect biodiversity! It's a low-cost #diy device you can build with off-the-shelf parts and simple documentation. Thanks to an incredible grant we won from @wildlabsnet we have been able to pour our heart into this #tech4wildlife project since march and refine it to be a really robust, jungle-proof and easy to use device!

Full documentation to build one yourself here:
https://digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/

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The Mothbox is a low cost DIY insect monitor

Mothbox
This genius solved the puzzle within 10 minutes!