Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

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Post by Luc » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 10:04 AM UTC

I wish there was a cheap way to calibrate low-cost or surplus radiation monitors.

Re: Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

#12

Post by hanoz » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 10:18 AM UTC

Lovely piece of work. Scary how active those old gas lamp mantles are (in the video). Makes me wonder how radioactive your average campsite is, given that those things tend to crumble to dust when you change them.

Re: Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

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Post by ElLapidas » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 10:32 AM UTC

Yet another blatant marketing piece in the frontpage. I wonder if the pro-adblock HN crowd is becoming more open to these things.

Re: Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

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Post by chrisys » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 10:33 AM UTC

hanoz wrote: post #12

Lovely piece of work. Scary how active those old gas lamp mantles are (in the video). Makes me wonder how radioactive your average campsite is, given that those things tend to crumble to dust when you change them.

They are quite radioactive for a household item indeed. The dust is a good point I keep that one double bagged for that reason, although they aren't as fragile when they're new.

Re: Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

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Post by chrisys » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 10:35 AM UTC

PeterBarrett wrote: post #10

This is really beautiful craftsmanship! It will definitely influence my own projects in the future, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the compliment Peter, if I can inspire others like yourself to get building, I'm happy :)

Re: Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 10:41 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 10:42 AM UTC

I like seeing some of these “ephemera” projects highlighted (like the kosher search engine and the manila folder 777).

We can do some cool stuff.

Thanks for sharing this!

Re: Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

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Post by anakaine » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 11:23 AM UTC

dvt wrote: post #2

Obviously a marketing piece, but a ton of work went into it, so I'm sure HN will be kind ;) In any case, this is a very awesome build!

Marketing? It's a one off build.

Re: Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

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Post by crispyporkbites » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 11:26 AM UTC

anakaine wrote: post #18

dvt wrote: post #2

Obviously a marketing piece, but a ton of work went into it, so I'm sure HN will be kind ;) In any case, this is a very awesome build!

Marketing? It's a one off build.

It’s marketing for the cloud iot platform on the blog

Re: Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

#20

Post by dkarp » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 11:41 AM UTC

ElLapidas wrote: post #13

Yet another blatant marketing piece in the frontpage. I wonder if the pro-adblock HN crowd is becoming more open to these things.

If a company chooses to spend their marketing budget in creating quality content then I don’t see a problem with it. There’s an obvious bias towards their software, but it’s on their website so that is clear, and the project is interesting and worthy of discussion. why wouldn’t it be on HN?