Open source conservation tech @arribada_i, @ZSLConservation and @ShuttleworthFdn Fellow. @Naturebytesuk co-founder @Raspberry_Pi wrangler
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May 23
Arribada's new standalone Argos transmitter is now available. No additional microcontroller required 🐢🐦⬛🐳🦈🌊
It's World Turtle Day 2026! 🐢 🌏
What better news for turtle telemetry than Arribada's news too that we have released a standalone Argos / Kinéis transmitter. The 𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗦𝗠𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲.
You can now develop your own Argos tags arribada.org/arribada-smd
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📢NEWS: Lack of data and reporting gaps are hampering global efforts to protect pangolins.
All eight recognised pangolin species remain at high risk of extinction but the absence of updated data mean the full scale of the situation is not yet understood.
Learn more in our new report with @CITES ➡️ info.iucn.org/4m6Zrlf
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Alasdair Davies retweeted
31 Jul 2025
Delighted to announce that SeaSense, our accessible water quality monitoring sensor developed hand-in-hand with @coast4c for seaweed farmers across the Philippines is a semi-finalist in the Solve MIT 2025 Global Climate Challenge🌊#Coast4C #Solve2025 #GlobalChallenges
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12 Jun 2025
📢New milestone unlocked for biologging tag developers📢
The new Kinéis constellation of 25 nanosatellites is now live, and our €50 transmitter is fully compatible! 15 minute global revisits unlocks a whole new world of telemetetry solutions. Take a look arribada.org/arribada-smd/
12 Jun 2025
Arribada’s new Argos & Kinéis satellite transmitter, the 𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗦𝗠𝗗, is now on general sale🛰️
For only €50, it’s one of the cheapest and most accessible hardware solutions to design your own biologgers and satellite tags🐋🐢🐧
🛰️arribada.org/arribada-smd/
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Alasdair Davies retweeted
21 May 2025
🌊🗑️🛰️ A new life highlight: telling UK Parliament we’re living in a litter sandwich
Plastic below in the ocean, debris above in Earth’s orbit.
I shared how:
1. We need space literacy
2. Prevention > clean-up
3. We must act fast, before we repeat old mistakes
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17 Mar 2025
Great progress from @openmvcam with the new N6 and AE3 cameras. Especially the low power deep sleep on the AE3 for battery powered builds. Congrats to Kwabena and team 🥳 kickstarter.com/projects/ope…
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Alasdair Davies retweeted
As you can imagine, with so much economic uncertainty, nonprofits everywhere are feeling it. We need your support now more than ever! Please consider supporting the 2025 Open Hardware Summit with your corporate membership or sponsorship today : 2025.oshwa.org/sponsor/
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Alasdair Davies retweeted
4 Feb 2025
7 years ago Arribada worked with @CLS_Group to open source an Argos satellite transmitter. Today, we're releasing our next generation SMD module at only 2cm in size and only EUR 49.99! There's never been a better time to build your own tags. Pre-order at arribada.org🛰️
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15 Jan 2025
📢A new job opening at Arribada -Firmware and Systems Engineer📢
Join us helping to monitor pangolins with thermal tech, develop satellite IoT bycatch mitigation solutions at sea (with ESA) and the usual mandatory sea turtle conservation work on remote beaches 🐢
14 Jan 2025
Interested in a career developing conservation technologies? 🔌⚡️
We've a new opportunity to join @arribada_i as a Senior Firmware and Systems Engineer, developing solutions such as our thermal imaging camera trap for Operation Pangolin linkedin.com/jobs/view/41257… @WILDLABSNET
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11 Dec 2024
A rare moment. The entire @arribada_i team in the same physical location on the planet! (minus Fai in Cameroon who we couldn't get a VISA for sadly). Not bad considering we live and work from 6 different countries🙏
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24 Oct 2024
A great opportunity to access high resolution Pleiades satellite imagery and $6k in funding to bring it all together in your software. Deadline 18th Dec 2024 just before the Xmas break 🎄@SatAppsCatapult
30 Sep 2024
🌍Want to see ecosystems & wildlife from space? Satellites for Biodiversity Award Round 3 is here! With the @AirbusFdn you can win the tools to monitor protect nature at scale🌱
🛰️ Access to @Airbus Pléiades satellites
💰$6,000
💻@Esri's ArcGIS Pro
connectedconservation.founda…
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12 Sep 2024
Watching someone spacewalk live with a view of earth whilst on the train to London knowing I am somewhere in the background 🤯
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Watch Dragon’s first spacewalk with the @PolarisProgram’s Polaris Dawn crew x.com/i/broadcasts/1OyJAZnwZ…
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Alasdair Davies retweeted
2 Sep 2024
Discover how #ZephyrRTOS simplifies the development of low-power, adaptable wildlife camera traps! Alex Bucknall shares insights from the @arribada_i’s conservation projects at #OSSummit. hubs.la/Q02M98Vr0
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Alasdair Davies retweeted
16 Aug 2024
Thank you so much to the @WILDLABSNET community for the first place video award highlighting the thermal detection work of Operation Pangolin @PGAFamilyFdn @BDilkina @DanChallender @FIU @PangolinSG
15 Aug 2024
In the video category, we honor @arribada_i's thermal camera traps that detect arboreal species' nocturnal activity, @RobinSandfort's AI segmentation on wild boar piglet videos, and @FrouinMouy's HD video acoustic imaging sonar and recording to study elephant seals.
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Alasdair Davies retweeted
12 Aug 2024
🗳The 2024 #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge has concluded and the Community Choice Awards are officially open for voting!
Read the announcement article and voting instructions here: wildlabs.net/article/cast-yo…
Voting is open now until Wednesday, August 14 at 8 PM BST.
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Alasdair Davies retweeted
6 Aug 2024
Operation Pangolin is developing a thermal camera trap 🔥 to detect nocturnal activity of arboreal species, with this footage highlighting the detection of a white-bellied pangolin 👀 @PGAFamilyFdn @FIU @ZSLconservation @UniofOxford @UofMaryland @USC #Tech4Wildlife @WILDLABSNET
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9 Jul 2024
📢A new job opportunity for embedded software engineers looking to move into a career in conservation technology. Work with @KeeleUniversity and @arribada_i developing tiny biologging tags for birds 🦜jobs.ac.uk/job/DIL131/knowle… @WILDLABSNET
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Alasdair Davies retweeted
4 Jul 2024
Coming soon! #AudioMoth_Dev_Case, with D-cell battery holder, access gland for external sensors, padlocking loop and mounting slots for add-on boards, such as the GPS board, is now out with a small number of trial users.
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Alasdair Davies retweeted
1 Jul 2024
A friendly reminder!
Applications for this year's Conservation Tech Award are now open.
Are you part of an organization developing and deploying technology to protect our planet’s incredible creatures, their habits, and the communities that depend on them? Apply here!
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