In March 2025 I have joined the Communication Systems faculty of the TU Berlin as part of the research project Living the forest lab hosted by Sara Reichert and Athena Grandis. There I was working on the first iiteration of the Elektrosluch and doing preliminary research of my upcoming Bachelors Thesis.
Part of the project was a two week excursion to Corte (Corsica), creating awareness about how technology can interact in conjunction with nature and how to make electrical engineering more sustainable. My specific branch of experimentation involved the perception of technology for animals living in nature. Our everyday devices emit a lot of imperceptable sound for us, building the Electrosluch was a way to show how animals with different hearing ranges (for example bats) “hear” the world with all of the technology around. An interesting challenge encountered during the trip was how to improvise in situations where electrical components are missing. In our case the wrong type of Inductor were sent to us, so during our time in Corte we had to create an inductor from scratch, calculating the amount of copper wire windings we require around an iron core to achieve the correct inductivity. It was a lot of fun!
You can find a more elaborate report on all of the work done during the research trip by all the participants on the following page: https://www.lifolab.de/living-the-forest-lab-in-corsica