Schlagwort: Geiger counter
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Radioactively generated music with the Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi and Ableton Live
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou’ve seen movies and TV shows with Geigers counters: handheld devices that click when they detect radiation — the faster the clicks, the stronger the radiation. Those clicks are actually the result of inert gas briefly made conductive by bursts of energy released by ionizing radiation particles entering the sealed Geiger–Müller tube.…
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Monitor radioactivity levels with this low-cost Geiger counter
Reading Time: 2 minutesMonitor radioactivity levels with this low-cost Geiger counter Arduino Team — January 9th, 2019 While you may not have a graduate degree in nuclear physics, you likely have some inkling that large amounts of radiation should be avoided. In order to monitor local levels, AdNovea has come up with a DIY Geiger-Müller…
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From HackSpace mag issue 14: DIY Geiger counters
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn HackSpace magazine issue 14, out today, Cameron Norris writes about how citizen scientists at Tokyo Hackerspace took on the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Safecast is an independent citizen science project that emerged in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster to provide accurate, unbiased, and credible data on radiation exposure in Japan. On…
