Tokyo Hackerspace/RDTN Geiger Shield
— April 14th, 2011
Japan’s difficoult moment has challenged many Arduino users (I can count at least three different threads on the forum about geiger tube & sensors lately 1, 2, 3). As David posted some time ago, the need of an open, net-spreaded visualization of the real level of radioactivity was heavily felt by the community, also for trasparency reasons. This is when the Geiger shield comes in:
This is an Arduino-based geiger counter shield that makes it easy to upload data to the internet and also interchange tubes. Since it’s open source and Arduino-based, its also easy to hack this to other interesting applications.
you can follow on [TokyoHackerspace] the all process of prototyping.
April 14th, 2011 at 13:19:54
Curiously we have released today also a Geiger board for Arduino. It seems a lot of people is moving. great!
*Radiation Sensor Board for Arduino*
Quick Overview:
Detect Alpha, Beta and Gamma radiation integrating any Geiger Tube which works in the range 400V – 1000V and read this levels using Arduino. As well as from the terminal, the radiation levels can be shown using different actuators:
– Piezo: it allows us to hear the typical “chirp” common in the radioactivity counters
– Leds: 3 green and 2 red let easily to show low, medium and high levels
– LCD: it displays the counts per minute (cpm) and the equivalent absorbed energy levels in Servants (µSV/h).
Read the Tutorial:
http://www.cooking-hacks.com/index.php/documentation/tutorials/geiger-counter-arduino-radiation-sensor-board
April 14th, 2011 at 15:09:07
Nice!
We mentioned this cool board here. Good to know it has been released.
Thanks to post it here David.
Davide
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