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A few months ago I ran across this article about doing exactly that (well, CMOS rather than CCD): https://phys.org/news/2014-06-smartphone-detector-app-positive

by taneq 6y ago

A few months ago I ran across this article about doing exactly that (well, CMOS rather than CCD): https://phys.org/news/2014-06-smartphone-detector-app-positive.html https://phys.org/news/2014-06-smartphone-detector-app-positi... Apparently it works reasonably well.

aaaxyz 6y ago
I'm not sure if it's still active but there was a project to detect cosmic rays using smartphone cameras flipped upside down or with tape on the lens: https://crayfis.io/ https://crayfis.io/
- clon 6y ago
  I was ready to give it a go ona few devices laying around, but the Google Groups signup story is a turnoff.
  - aaaxyz 6y ago
    Indeed. Looks like it's been abandoned and stuck in beta