Australian beekeeper building a smart hive monitor (and a varroa card game)

Hi all — Gergo here, from Melbourne, Australia.

Just a quick intro

I've built a smart hive monitor of my own: temperature, humidity and pressure sensors, a load-cell weight platform, RGB + thermal cameras, and an on-device edge-compute pipeline I'm still training up to do more with that footage over time. Running a dual-queen setup too. All the electronics and enclosure are built and ready — planning to get it onto a real hive this spring. Genuinely keen for input from you, especially on anything I've missed.

Separately — I also made a card game. A co-op survival game about beekeepers working together to keep every colony alive through a varroa outbreak, illustrated with real vintage specimen art. Thought it'd make a decent family/educational gift, might be a nice change of pace from screens. Landing on Kickstarter soon — sign up for the heads-up here if you're curious: https://2bee.farm/broodnest

Keen to hear what you're all seeing this season.

Dual queens? How does that work?

It can be done with 2 nucs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VIdA8ZZMH8)
I put a "nuc divider" on the 10 frame brood box between the 5-5 frame part, push the entrance to the sides.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Two-queen-system-of-honey-bee-colony-management-Moeller/6b2b93dc31e0240cc93bf309a8a70576f1881550

That's an interesting concept.