Bird Feeder 3000 – Bird Lovers Kit

For all you bird watchers out there, Bird Feeder 3000 (BF3K) is the bird feeder you’ve been dreaming of. With the BF3K, you’ll take clear, vivid 360 photos and video from mere inches away from the birds at your feeder. Then, you’ll upload those images to app that instantly identifies the bird species. You’ll track and submit valuable data to help ornithologists and other scientists track bird populations and migration patterns. You’ll put on a virtual reality headset and watch and listen to the birds from a vantage point inside the feeder, as if you were just another bird. We don’t mean to brag, but it’s amazing! BF3K is endless fun. Trust us, we had a hard time putting it down long enough to build this website so we could share BF3K with y’all too.

It fits right inside most tray-style bird feeders, turning your regular old bird feeder into a high-tech bird feeder. Don’t have any feeder at all? Don’t sweat it. The BF3K itself doubles as a small bird feeder. Just take off the lid and fill the front bin of the BF3K with bird seed. It’s just plastic, so it’s easy to empty out when you’re done.

The Bird Feeder 3000 – Bird Lovers Kit includes:

• 3D printed bird feeder, component and seed bin, and lids
  • Colors currently available: Black, White, Lime Green, Blue, Brown, White-and-Black, and Grab Bag (i.e. the four printed components will all be different random colors)
• Baffle, to keep away squirrels and large aggressive birds such as doves
• 360 camera
• Cardboard Viewer, for viewing the birds in VR
• Merlin BirdID account, an app that uses AI to identify bird species
• Project FeederWatch account, a citizen science research project (for submitting bird sightings and other data to scientists to track bird populations, migration patterns, disease vectors, and other valuable data
• Detailed instructions on how to use the 360 camera, capture 360 photos and video, upload to YouTube, watch on the VR headset, use MerlinID to identify bird species, and submitting to Project FeederWatch

You may want to check out our BF3K – STEM Education Kit too. We’ll have it posted to the site shortly. It also includes a 3D printer and a build-it-youself IoT weather station. It’s pricier, but with it you’ll learn how to build just about anything you imagine, and you’ll have all the equipment you need to build it too.