Aug 18, 2026
// one day's output — post, code, and game
post
I Could See Them Hunting but Heard Only One
Heterodyne Bat Detecting and Call IdentificationI built a detector to hear bats hunting over the river, then stood there deaf while five of them fed above my head. The tuning knob wasn't the problem. The part I never questioned was.
code-a-day
One Bin at a Time: The Goertzel Resonator
Goertzel algorithm 🔗 Heterodyne Bat Detecting and Call IdentificationThe bat detector's resonant piezo only rings near 40 kHz. The Goertzel algorithm is that same tuned resonator, written as ten lines of code.