Meet Your Tutors: Akiba and Jacinta, Freaklabs
Chris ‘Akiba’ Wang
Akiba has a background in electronics and product design and has been designing circuits for the past 25 years. He’s taught for MIT Media Lab and has been a researcher there as well as Keio University and Osaka University in Japan. His specialty is in wireless sensor networks and worked on the Zigbee standard as well as other communications standards. His work has gravitated towards technology for environmental monitoring and is now working on wildlife conservation.
Jacinta Plucinski
Jacinta is a developer specializing in web technologies using python and javascript. She’s also a published author, runs her own book publishing company, and has started her own magazine. She’s a co-founder of Tokyo Hackerspace and Hackerfarm, and when not working on technology or publishing projects, she experiments with regenerative and sustainable agriculture.
About Freaklabs
Freaklabs develops environmental monitoring technology in partnership with individual researchers, conservation organisations, NGOs and governments. We’ve worked with The World Bank, International Rice Research Institute and UNESCO.
Our projects include adding audio triggers to camera traps in the Serengeti to monitor predator/prey responses, monitoring the GPS and liquid levels in sanitation trucks in Egypt to prevent illegal dumping into the Nile, monitoring water levels in rice paddy fields in Philippines for more sustainable water management, and radiation monitoring in Japan.
We also started Tokyo Hackerspace and Hackerfarm in Japan where we experiment with organic and regenerative agriculture and technology.
Collaborative notes (including useful resource + links) from the session: [ Ссылка ]
About the Series
Introducing the WILDLABS Tech Tutors, our new series that focuses on answering the "how do I do that?" questions of conservation tech. Launched with the support of Microsoft AI for Earth, this series will give you the bite-sized, easy-to-understand building blocks you'll need to try new conservation technology, enhance your research, or DIY a project for the first time.
To find out more, and register for upcoming tutorials, visit the series page here: www.wildlabs.net/tech-tutors
For more information about this tutorial, including Akiba and Jacinta's recommended links and resources, visit: [ Ссылка ]
Music: www.bensound.com
