The Story of a Physical Device That Keeps Time

When European settlers arrived in the 18th century into New Zealand, they introduced species that were really harmful to a lot of our native birds. The cacophony project is attempting to use machine learning to identify animals using infrared vision and it turns out, so it takes photos or take videos actually and time stamps them. If you're a tiny little device, it's really hard for you to tell time. You need a clock. And then I was like, how on earth does any computer tell time? It turns out, one of the properties of quartz crystals is that when they are electrified, they go backwards and forwards at a very specific frequency. But we might have some way of dealing

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