Wow…That could be useful for my physical science class…

Posted at 11:10 am on Dec 17th, 2005 by colonel_panic

Wow…That could be useful for testing my tin foil hat…

Posted at 12:27 pm on Dec 17th, 2005 by Rob

wow…that could be useful for figuring out whether or not all this electronic junk around me really is going to make me infertile.

Posted at 5:44 pm on Dec 17th, 2005 by sinski

nice hack!

I ran accross this the other day, trolling wikipedia for something cool – http://www.unitednuclear.com/supplies.htm

You can buy uranium and other radiation emitting material from this site (including some crap that outputs gamma radiation).

This isnot a plug – i read hackaday everyday, and thought i’d add my .02$

Posted at 8:28 pm on Dec 17th, 2005 by tallwookie

Coool.

Posted at 8:50 pm on Dec 17th, 2005 by dacheetah

I have radioactive rocks in my head, so a tinfoil hat doesn’t help.
quite the opposite

Posted at 9:15 pm on Dec 17th, 2005 by strider_mt2k

this is kinda “stupid” , who is really going to make one of these things!
i want some more usefull hacks
Thanks :)

Posted at 12:40 am on Dec 18th, 2005 by cooldude

RE #7 “cool”dude WHY in your ever so vaunted opinoin, is this a STUPID hack? Too simple? Too easy? Too… not interesting to you and therefore must = stupid?

Seriously – ENOUGH with the derogatory comments – they don’t help ANYONE who reads or posts to this list.

Last year in my digital electronics course one of the groups decided to build essentially this same thing out of discrete logic components. Worked fairly well, but the number of components they had wired together was insanely high compared to this micro-controller based approach.

Posted at 2:55 am on Dec 18th, 2005 by smilr

Yep, microcontrollers are great like that. I felt a little sorrow a while back when one of the guys who was instrumental in their design and creation died. Without this technology, we would still be in the technological dark ages.

Posted at 6:11 pm on Dec 18th, 2005 by octobclrnts

Am I the only who read “his rock collection” and thought about his Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin albums etc.?

Off course, real rocks have radioactivity sometimes, but hey it’s early in the morning on monday soooo……

- Unomi -

Posted at 3:57 am on Dec 19th, 2005 by Unomi

I’ve done stuff like this for the CDV700 counters (and others), however with the advent of the (free to use) CDVcounter software, there is no point any more – no modification of anything is required to get much better results on computer, you just plug the geiger counter’s earphone jack directly into your computer (or better, laptop) soundcard mic port, and it does graphs, web server stuff, etc.
Plus, you can export the data to excel or other programs to do more complex analysis.

That’s not to knock this hack though – you should do stuff like this yourself at least once before having a premade solution handed to you :-)

I recommend CDVcounter though, it’s simple but interesting to play with. If you have two geiger counters, you can rig up a stereo adaptor and make a cosmic ray (muon) telescope.

Posted at 8:38 pm on Dec 19th, 2005 by Justin