Mothbox World Tour (Year of the Moth)

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!

Mothbox wins Wildlabs Grand Prize (Again!)

The wonderful folks at Wildlabs and ARM once again selected our Mothbox project for their top prize! You can read about our project and the other winners here.

This year’s funding will be put towards a mass manufacturable Mothbox that will be easier to distribute to researchers around the world!

We have already been working hard, and even travelled to Shenzhen, China to learn how to design electronics for mass-production!