Disney Purple Martins

Passive observation for better animal conservation. Spatial computing, machine learning, custom hardware, software, services, and client AR apps.

15 people, 12 weeks, and a guest facing experience for Earth Day 2018 at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Illustration of two plastic housings containing raspberry pi computers.

Designing a weatherproof IoT device

There were a lot of challenges in delivering the Purple Martins project, and one of the thorniest was the hardware. Unlike software, there's no continuous integration of new hardware into the wild. Electronics Due solely to the time constraints of the project (8 weeks) - we had to

A village of Native Americans doing daily tasks, Purple Martins make their nests in drying gourds on a scaffold.

The story behind the 'Magic of Nature'

‘Magic of nature’: Disney’s smart birdhouses reveal the secret lives of purple martins | TransformDigital transformations and the new face of businessTransformBill Briggs Background - from maintenance to martins I didn't start with a project pitch to understand a bird species. My incredible colleague Molly McCarthy and the