radiation detection with Arduino: cumulative counter (2)

After modifying the arduino program for measure radiation with cooking-hacks.com’s radiation board in a previous post, I realized that it wasn’t still perfect for background radiation measures: Background radiation measures are typically of very low values and given the stochastic nature of radiation (see graph on previous post), it takes some minutes to achieve a … Continue reading →

radiation detection with Arduino: cumulative counter

In a previous article, I used a radiation detection board adapted to the Raspberry Pi with an intercommunication board. But obviously the radiation detection board was primarily intended to use with Arduino. I used the code provided by the manufacturer, until I noticed that it wasn’t useful for real (amateur) radiation measurements: the radiation is … Continue reading →

a sucessful gdb use case

As I was compiling a little program for detecting radiation on my Raspberry Pi, I was obliged to use gdb in order to debug the problem that I was driven to. After transforming a little program from its Arduino form in order to use it on the RPi (see the necessary hardware here)… well it … Continue reading →

radiation detection with Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a nice piece of hardware. Moreover, it can be expanded with an “Arduino to Raspberry Pi connection bridge”, which allows it to interact with other boards made for Arduino. For example, sensor boards. In this case I’ve been playing with a sensor board for radiation detection. It is as cool as … Continue reading →