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OP links to their repo which has full instructions on how to integrate a geiger counter board with the RPi: https://github.com/balenalabs-incubator/background-r

• SiempreViernes 6y ago
  I hope you see the difference between building a Geiger tube and buying one.
  • ashtonkem 6y ago
    Building a Geiger tube is probably beyond the reach of most people. That’s a precision piece of equipment.
    • ISL 6y ago
      I'd argue that it is beyond the perceived reach of many people, but it is not beyond the actual reach of many people. The key ingredients are aspiration and time.
      • heisbsissi 6y ago
        Another commenter on hacker news completely out of touch with the lives the vast majority of humanity lives. It's amazing how the simplistic intellectual masturbation here is similar to reddit except with reddit it's because they are teenagers and here it's because the users are just basic enough to make decent enough and not much more than that.
      • ashtonkem 6y ago
        This got me thinking: how far down the current human tech tree could a single person get on their own? It took thousands of years for humans to go from fire to the steam locomotive; could someone do it in a lifetime? Obviously the ability to skip by basic research and dead ends would cut this down by a ton, but ultimately a lot of the things we’ve created in the past century requires a huge amount of complicated machinery to make, which requires more machines and more labor. Could a person reasonably start from scratch (let’s say skip the mining and just give them coal & metal ores) and make a Geiger tube? Or would it be too difficult?