We have had a lot of sucess over the past year turning the Mothbox from a functional prototype to a mass-manufacturable devices we can make tons of! To celebrate, we are going on a WORLD TOUR! Here’s our current list of stops over the next year!
February 14-24 -Lima, Peru
Our team will be at the ICTC helping lead a workshop and discussion about automated insect monitors! Giving a closing plenary about the journey of the Mothbox.
March 2-13 – Barcelona
I’ll teach a bubble and interaction design class with Monica Rikic, and then we will spend the weekend at a field site exploring nature with technology!
April 20-22 Open Source Lab Automation – Seattle, WA
Workshop about open tools for science!
May – Open Hardware Summit – Berlin
If our talk or workshop gets accepted, we will hopefully set up a 3 – Day industrial moth-rave in an abandoned tower (or, maybe something like that 😉 )
BTW you can get tickets NOW for the OHS!
May – Mothbox Workshop -Aarhus
Invited workshop at the home of automated insect monitoring
June – Bionic Blitz – Marburg Germany
Testing Mothbox with lots of other automated monitoring teams!
July 17-19 – Mothapalooza! Ohio
I’ll be doing a keynote talk at the moth-iest event!
July 20-26 – Moth Week American Museum – NYC
It’s gonna be awesome!
July 28-30 Fab26 Boston (Maybe)
Putting in an application 🙂
August 15-19 – Tucson, Arizona
Invertebrates in Education and Conservation Conference! I got offered a super wonderful opportunity to give the keynote talk for the IECC conference https://titag.org/iecc-conference/ that will take place in August in Arizona. I have been hearing super cool things about this conference, so stayed tuned for info about how you can join us!
November 7-9 – Entomological Society Meeting – Ohio
Going back to the big entomology meeting
December – Australia Mothboxing?
YEAR OF THE MOTH – Art Challenge
If you want to play along, create some kind of artwork (poem, drawing, game, etc…) about that species each week! Share your art on whatever platform with #YearOfTheMoth !
(There’re no prizes or whatever, just honor from Moths)
It starts first week of February with the WHITE WITCH!
