Geiger counter

Drunkskunk

Drunkskunk

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I'm trying to learn how to Arduino for my next Ebike project, and have been looking for projects. After a few comment's from a friend about buying a Kobe steak so he could have a light in his Freezer, I started thinking about all the Pacific caught seafood in mine.

Hmmm.

I doubt I have fatal amounts of radiation in my fridge, and I'm not afraid of serving a few pots of delicious Alaskan king crab for the 4th of July, but I'm not oblivious to the higher radiation in Pacific caught food. We're surrounded by radioactive sources every day, from tile to countertops to bananas.
So I want to see how much radiation I have around me.
...It's more of an excuse to build a detector than any actual desire to quantify the levels.

So now I think I have a project. a Geiger counter.

But that's where my idea stops dead. I don't know enough about Arduino or GM tubes to design one. I could handle building one from a kit or plans, but I don't know enough about how they work to decide on what would be a good place to start.

So anyone here build a Geiger counter, or know enough about them to steer me in a good direction?
 
it is amazing about these folk tales of how the pacific is now radioactive.

it would be great if it made people stop eating fish and tuna so maybe the fish would have a chance to recover from decades of over fishing and destruction of the fish stocks down to just babies left now.

imagine what is gonna be like when they catch the last tuna.

people do not stop the destruction of the environment to prevent it from being totally destroyed until some folk tale comes along that they might be exposed to tiny amounts of alpha rays, and they are more swayed by that than the reality of what we have done to nature itself.
 
I like the idea of arduino.. you can record data, look at it when you want to or do active tests..


So next question, What's your limit on radiation ? :lol:
I might not be able to stop myself from eating some delicious crab soaked in radiation :lol:
 
I wonder if they have any data on how much MORE radiation we can survive than people 100 years ago. We just gotta be evolving into a radiation proof species, one RAD at a time. (Radiation Absorbed Dose.)
 
I have one of the Spark Fun geiger modules. Took the pulse output to an Arduino input. did some basic timing and math in the adruino, then sent the data out to a 2 line lcd display. Did an immediate reading, a one minute average, and a maximum reading. Even pulsed another output to a little speaker to give it the click sound you associate with a geiger counter. That project is still waiting to be finished and packaged nicely.

The granite counter top in the house I was in at the time registered higher than ambient.

Here is another site that shows monitoring stations.

http://www.netc.com/
 
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