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We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies (nytimes.com)
9 points by m463 24 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Incredible feat of miniaturization. I have no idea how you get a Bluetooth transmitter down to that SWaP factor, and I'm not exactly a n00b at either RF or EE stuff in general.

Almost worth $200 to order one of the BlūMorpho trackers and take it apart to see how they did it.



I wonder if 60mg is a lot of extra weight?

Looks like monarchs weigh from 0.25 grams for smaller individuals to 0.75 grams for larger ones.




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