This post covers a bit of an experiment I tried using both our bat listener kit and the cheeseboard (an ESP8266 development board). I wanted to make a unit that would send me an email whenever a bat was detected in my garden. This would be based upon the ESP8266 and monitor the output from the bat listener kit we... Read more

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Adding a headphone output socket to the bat listener has been on my list of things to do for far too long! It turns out it's quite simple to do. Replacing the speaker with a 100 ohm to the left and right channels of a headphone jack socket. The output is mono, so the same output goes to both ears.... Read more

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