Building an Acoustic Camera with Uma-16 and Acoular
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The post showcases building an acoustic camera using UMA-16 and Acoular, sparking interest in its potential applications, including DIY drone detection systems.
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> Acoular is a Python module for acoustic beamforming that is distributed under the new BSD license.
> It is aimed at applications in acoustic testing. Multichannel data recorded by a microphone array can be processed and analyzed in order to generate mappings of sound source distributions. The maps (acoustic photographs) can then be used to locate sources of interest and to characterize them using their spectra.
Different domain probably, but I wonder how useful/adaptable something like this would be for immersive audio. I have no idea my use case (where-as beam forming seems so useful for getting clear pickup), but I was blown away by djjules's recent ambisonics microphone build; so cool. They also have the most epic diy 7.1.4 immersive audio build. https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/maurice-brings-immersive-aud...