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Featherframe shows the birds your BirdNET or BirdWeather station identifies as illustrations from Audubon's and Gould's books, on an e-paper frame.

Your Featherframe

For a frame you bought or were given, on Featherframe Cloud.

• Set up your frame: Wi-Fi, the setup code, and your account
• Your frame: its buttons and light, what the screen shows, and when the picture changes
• Troubleshooting: when something isn't working, and how to get help

Use

• Settings: every setting, each frame's and the household's
• Add a frame: another frame, a TRMNL, or a tablet
• Detection sources: BirdWeather, BirdNET-Pi, or BirdNET-Go
• Other screens: tablets, TRMNL, Kobo, and Kindle
• Species and illustrations: which illustration each species gets
• AI illustrations: generated illustrations and collages, costs, and privacy
• How AI illustrations are made: the AI ornithologist, art direction, and the style prompt

Build your own

What you need to know and buy, and how to start.

• Quickstart: from nothing to a picture on your wall
• Kits and screens: which screen to get
• BirdNET hardware: a listening station, bought or built
• Build the frame: parts and assembly
• Status LED: an optional light that shows what the frame is doing
• Battery: add your own battery
• Flash the frame: install the firmware and connect to Wi-Fi
• Install the server: on your BirdNET device, or on a NAS

About

• Why Featherframe: why it exists, and what it cares about
• About BirdNET: what hears the birds, and how
• Sibling projects: other bird frames, BirdNET tools, and backyard bird projects

Develop

• How it works: the server, the firmware, and the picture format
• Porting to another panel: run the firmware on another e-paper screen
• Development: previews, tests, and make commands
• Style guide: how Featherframe writes, and the words it uses