Open Source Beehives

*That stop-motion animation makes this quite an unusual video.

*Too bad bees can’t pay to save themselves.

Open Source Beehives Crowdfunding Video from Open Tech Collaborative on Vimeo.

“Open Source Beehives Crowdfunding Video
from Open Tech Collaborative PLUS 1 week ago / Creative Commons License: by sa ALL AUDIENCES
Check out our crowd-funding campaign: igg.me/at/osbeehives/x/3028972

“The Open Source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world. The project proposes to design hives that can support bee colonies in a sustainable way, to monitor and track the health and behaviour of a colony as it develops. Each hive contains an open source sensory kit, The Smart Citizen Kit (SCK), which can transmit to an open data platform: Smartcitizen.me

“These sensor enhanced hive designs are open and freely available online, the data collected from each hive is published together with geolocations allowing for a further comparison and analysis of the hives.”