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Nice. I love weather station builds. Here is mine. I added a pm air quality sensor, a infrared rain sensor, some light sensors, a CO2 sensor, an accelerometer,

Nice. I love weather station builds. Here is mine. I added a pm air quality sensor, a infrared rain sensor, some light sensors, a CO2 sensor, an accelerometer, and a loudness sensor. There's a spot for my Geiger counter too but that installation is not done yet. https://partofthething.com/thoughts/weather-and-air-quality-monitoring-station-with-esp8266-and-home-assistant/ https://partofthething.com/thoughts/weather-and-air-quality-...

_n_b_ 6y ago
Have you thought about adding some kind of room-temperature spectroscopy along with your Geiger counter? Might be interesting to correlate with spikes in the count rate.
- acidburnNSA 6y ago
  Absolutely. That's part of why I'm delaying. A professor at the University of Michigan is working on a similar project and I want to catch up with her. They're using a cheap(ish) proportional counter to be able to identify all of the isotopes that you might be looking for in a variety of wartime or accident scenarios. https://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Abstract/2018/11000/A_Radiation_Weather_Station__Development_of_a.6.aspx https://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Abstract/2018/11000/...
joshvm 6y ago
This is cool. You might be interested in the synthetic sensor project - I don't think it ever got to commercial release, but the idea was to try and merge information from lots of different cheap sensors together into "virtual sensors". For example accelerometer + loudness sensor + pressure change could be combined into a "someone shut the door" sensor. Then you could make heirarchies of these virtual signals, e.g. "kettle on virtual sensor" + "morning" + "some IR signature" = "Alice is making breakfast" (rather than Bob). It's quite a neat idea, but as far as I know they never released any code for it. http://www.gierad.com/projects/supersensor/ http://www.gierad.com/projects/supersensor/
addflip 6y ago
This is awesome. Thanks for posting this. Question for you do you happen to have a soldering iron you recommend for the build out?
- acidburnNSA 6y ago
  I should technically solder more of this, as it's mostly together with prototype cables at the moment. Any soldering iron should work, but I am partial to Weller Soldering Stations. I have one from ~10 years ago that has an analog adjustment, though now I see they look to be mostly digital. Their website has them around $300 for some reason but they are on amazon for closer to $100 (which is what I got mine for). https://www.weller-tools.com/we1010na/ https://www.weller-tools.com/we1010na/
  - infecto 6y ago
    Just a warning, amazon has been pretty bad with fake soldering irons.
- Avamander 6y ago
  If you don't want to spend much, the TS-100 or TS-80 are both very good choices under $100.
qwertox 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this project. I have a lot of small individual sensors tracking mostly temperature and humidity in every room and outside (including one on my bike), and I'm always wanting to build a "complete" weather station, but lack the basis to build it upon. Yours looks cool.

_n_b_ 6y ago

Have you thought about adding some kind of room-temperature spectroscopy along with your Geiger counter? Might be interesting to correlate with spikes in the count rate.

acidburnNSA 6y ago
Absolutely. That's part of why I'm delaying. A professor at the University of Michigan is working on a similar project and I want to catch up with her. They're using a cheap(ish) proportional counter to be able to identify all of the isotopes that you might be looking for in a variety of wartime or accident scenarios. https://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Abstract/2018/11000/A_Radiation_Weather_Station__Development_of_a.6.aspx https://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Abstract/2018/11000/...

joshvm 6y ago

This is cool. You might be interested in the synthetic sensor project - I don't think it ever got to commercial release, but the idea was to try and merge information from lots of different cheap sensors together into "virtual sensors". For example accelerometer + loudness sensor + pressure change could be combined into a "someone shut the door" sensor. Then you could make heirarchies of these virtual signals, e.g. "kettle on virtual sensor" + "morning" + "some IR signature" = "Alice is making breakfast" (rather than Bob). It's quite a neat idea, but as far as I know they never released any code for it. http://www.gierad.com/projects/supersensor/ http://www.gierad.com/projects/supersensor/

addflip 6y ago

This is awesome. Thanks for posting this. Question for you do you happen to have a soldering iron you recommend for the build out?

acidburnNSA 6y ago
I should technically solder more of this, as it's mostly together with prototype cables at the moment. Any soldering iron should work, but I am partial to Weller Soldering Stations. I have one from ~10 years ago that has an analog adjustment, though now I see they look to be mostly digital. Their website has them around $300 for some reason but they are on amazon for closer to $100 (which is what I got mine for). https://www.weller-tools.com/we1010na/ https://www.weller-tools.com/we1010na/
- infecto 6y ago
  Just a warning, amazon has been pretty bad with fake soldering irons.
Avamander 6y ago
If you don't want to spend much, the TS-100 or TS-80 are both very good choices under $100.

qwertox 6y ago

Thanks for sharing this project. I have a lot of small individual sensors tracking mostly temperature and humidity in every room and outside (including one on my bike), and I'm always wanting to build a "complete" weather station, but lack the basis to build it upon. Yours looks cool.