Citizen Naturewatch

数字化制作（又名数字化制作）。随着低成本微处理器平台、价格实惠的3D打印机和激光切割机的日益普及，以及分享最佳实践和众筹新项目的在线社区的出现，“创客文化”或“制造运动”得到了推动。这有可能提升英国制造业，增加新产品的获取渠道，并鼓励新形式的DIY。然而，到目前为止，这些技术主要局限于FabLabs， Maker fares和Hackathons，并且主要由自称为“极客”的人用于自我激励的项目。由于缺乏专门知识和资源，只有一小部分学龄儿童有机会参加制作活动，尽管这些活动引起了广泛的兴趣，更一般地说，大多数人实际上仍然无法获得这些技术。Citizen Naturewatch将与BBC屡获殊荣的“春天观察”（Springwatch）系列节目合作，为英国观众带来数字制作的新受众，观众可以在家里制作定制的数字设备。《春天的守望》由英国广播公司自然历史部门制作，耗时三周，拍摄地点通常位于自然保护区。节目的核心部分包括从众多户外摄像机收集的镜头，这些摄像机拍摄了整个现场的鸟类和动物，以及其他地点的镜头，所有这些镜头都串联在一起，由专家主持人的评论生动活泼，丰富多彩。我们建造的设备将通过支持来自英国各地的人们收集可能在节目中使用的图像，声音和数据来增加这些内容。这些设备将在与自然历史部门以及其他相关专家组协商后开发，可能包括拍摄、称重甚至识别当地鸟类的系统，或用于追踪狐狸、观察鱼类或计数刺猬的系统。我们的目标是设计出吸引人的、简单的、负担得起的设计，并产生值得在Springwatch上展示的内容。我们将制作一套最初的设计和工具包，并与包括制造者、学生和野生动物俱乐部在内的“种子团体”进行试验。在他们的帮助下，我们将完善这些设计，以便作为开源规范发布，以达到尽可能广泛的受众。随着BBC的推广，以及包括视频在内的简单操作说明，我们预计它们将被全英国的黑客、爱好者、学生俱乐部和观鸟团体所采用。在两个Springwatch周期的过程中，我们将开发这些设计，以及与它们互动的公众，作为一种资源，可以增加Springwatch现有的内容。Springwatch已经是公众参与环境科学的一个世界领先的例子。该项目将通过允许人们收集自己的环境相关数据和内容来支持这一使命。在此过程中，我们将支持公众参与新技术，因为有机会为展览做出贡献，一系列学生，黑客和自然爱好者试用，修改和建造我们提出的设备。因此，公民自然观察将成为一个强大的推动力，让广大公众参与到数字制作活动中来。随着BBC帮助宣传该项目，学校和创客空间的活动，以及一个应该吸引各种各样的年轻人和老年人参与者的领域，其影响可能是激励和告知广泛的英国公民参与最新技术。

Digital making (a.k.a. 'maker culture' or the 'making movement') has gained impetus with the increasing availability of low-cost microprocessor-based platforms, affordable 3D printers and lasercutters, and an online community sharing best practice and crowdfunding new projects. This has the potential to enhance UK manufacturing, multiply access to new products and encourage new forms of DIY. So far, however, these technologies have mainly been confined to FabLabs, Maker Faires and Hackathons, and used primarily by self-identified 'geeks' for self-motivated projects. Only a small proportion of schoolchildren have access to making activities despite wide interest because expertise and resources are lacking, and more generally these technologies remain practically inaccessible to the majority of the population.Citizen Naturewatch will bring digital making to a new and broad UK audience by linking with the BBC's award-winning Springwatch series to produce collections of bespoke digital devices that viewers can make at home. Springwatch, produced by the BBC Natural History Unit over an intensive three-week period, is shot live from a home base usually located in a nature reserve. The core of the show consists of footage gathered from numerous outdoor cameras that film birds and animals throughout the site, as well as footage from other locations, all strung together, enlivened and enriched with commentary from expert presenters. The devices we build will add to this content by supporting people from around the UK to collect images, sounds and data that might be used on the show. The devices will be developed in consultation with the Natural History Unit as well as other relevant expert groups, and might include systems for photographing, weighing and even identifying local birds, or for tracking foxes, watching fish, or counting hedgehogs. The aim will be to produce designs that are engaging, easy and affordable to build, and which produce content worthy of showing on Springwatch. We will produce an initial set of designs and kits to try out with 'seed groups' including makers, students and wildlife clubs. With their help we will refine the designs for release as open-source specifications to reach the widest possible audiences. With promotion by the BBC, and easy to follow instructions including videos, we anticipate them being taken up by hackers, hobbyists, student clubs and birdwatching groups all over the UK. Over the course of two Springwatch cycles, we will develop the designs, and the publics who engage with them, as a resource that can augment Springwatch's existing content. Springwatch is already a world-leading example of public engagement with environmental science. This project will support this mission by allowing people to gather their own environmentally-relevant data and content. In the process, we will support public engagement with new technologies as, motivated by the chance to contribute to the show, a range of students, hackers and nature lovers try out, modify and build the devices we come up with. Thus Citizen Naturewatch will serve as a powerful impetus to involve a wide public to engage in digital making activities. With the BBC helping to publicise the project, activities in schools and maker spaces, and a domain that should attract a wide variety of younger and older participants, the impact will potentially be to inspire and inform a wide range of UK citizens to engage with the latest technologies.