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Adafruit sells a geiger counter kit. It's been on my list of things to tinker with for scanning living and work environments for potential hazards. Just for fun
by simple10 4y ago
Adafruit sells a geiger counter kit. It's been on my list of things to tinker with for scanning living and work environments for potential hazards. Just for fun. I'm curious if anyone here has ever found high levels of radiation while playing around with geiger counters?
https://www.adafruit.com/product/483 https://www.adafruit.com/product/483
- donatj 4y agoI have had an old Geiger counter in my office for a number of years my dad gave me he got in a crate of junk he purchased. Best I can tell it doesn't work, I've tried bananas and the like. I've always had a mild fear that the thing itself might be radioactive.
- mkl 4y agoPeople are more radioactive than bananas [1], so that's probably not too surprising. DrAwdeOccarim's sibling comment to yours mentions you can buy rocks to test with. [1] https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/how-many-bananas-would-i-need-to-eat-to-become-radioactive/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/how-many-bananas-would-...
- DrAwdeOccarim 4y agoI have one, it works, but I really want to connect it to a pi for data logging and visualization but I don’t have the time to code it up. If you go down this road, please let me know if you wind up finding a good open source project for managing the data! You can purchase rocks off ebay that have some radioactivity, which I use to show my kids how radiation works much to the chagrin of my spouse : )