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I’ll be spending today at mac workshopping some ideas for a pervasive game involving this prototype sonar whale hat I’ve made.

Prototype whale hat using a sonar range-finder and Arduino processor

Prototype whale hat using a sonar range-finder and Arduino processor

Doing a quick bit of online browsing about whale migration beforehand, I came across this and love the image:

Humpbacks Humpback

Winter: warm, low latitude tropical waters (breed and give birth)
Spring/Summer/Autumn: cooler, high latitude polar waters (feed)

Most humpback whales make mammoth journeys every year between their feeding and breeding sites. Because seasons are reversed either side of the equator, Northern and Southern Hemisphere populations of humpbacks probably never meet; those in the north travel towards their breeding grounds in tropical waters as those in the south are travelling towards the pole to feed, and vice versa. [source]