The Nukleus project was created as a continuation of an experiment that explores the principles of building by other types of builders in nature within the project "Building together - Building together".
This time, our wish was to have a more direct insight into the construction process and to enable others to participate in the experiment. By positioning the camera and sensors inside the hive, we use visual and numerical data to become closer to the bees. We connect with them by extrapolating the data and the synthetic approach. With the associative abilities of our mind, we bring ourselves to a better understanding; we try to feel the conditions, to compare the environment and the perception of space. Our goal is to see how bees, as highly organized social organisms, use space, how they change, adapt and regulate it. In the process, we can see the constant vibration of the space between organisms and the environment, to feel the movement of the unstable and thin border in both directions, to experience the efforts to maintain balance, struggle and intimacy, tension and harmony of ancient phylogenetic relationships.
The structure is a human-like “building” that has been modified to be inhabited by bees to complete construction on the structure. The construction of the "building" consists of steel wires coated with wax and in that way the structure is adapted to bees.
The structure is placed in a hive of special design that follows the shape of structure. The hive is equipped with technology that allows monitoring of events inside the hive:
The camera (Raspberry Pi NOIR camera) is positioned on the underside of the hive so that it captures the inside of the structure.
The Raspberry Pi 1 to which the Pi NOIR camera is connected takes photos every 15 minutes. That way, we can monitor progress in upgrading the structure and activities within the hive.
Sensors (two sensors for temperature and humidity, pressure sensor - DHT22 and Arduino pressure and temperature sensor) measure the values of temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure.
Raspberry Pi 2 to which sensors for temperature and humidity are connected - one inside and one outside the hive - and a sensor for measuring atmospheric pressure. The sensors are positioned inside the hive and outside the hive so that we can monitor the differences in parameter values. That way, we monitor how the bees regulate the internal conditions.
All data podaci – - video documentation of events inside the hive and parameter values in the form of graphs - can be monitored at any time on this site. Follow live events in the hive. Download the data here.
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