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Geiger Zero

Cheap, simple, small, low power geiger counter using a raspberry pi zero, a buzzer, pocket geiger type 5, and LED display.

jason-woodJason Wood
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A short while ago, SparkFun was selling a few Pocket Geigers from <a href="http://www.radiation-watch.org" target="_blank">www.radiation-watch.org</a>. The Type 5 is meant to be used with a microprocessor and they have already written a python driver, making the Raspberry Pi a perfect target. I designed the case to snap together with a tongue and groove. It holds together really well but I suspect it would fly apart if you dropped it. I posted the software on Git and he STL&apos;s on thingiverse. I consider this project finished knowing I haven&apos;t worked on it for much more than a week. There are a few flaws that I could fix, but I doubt i&apos;ll get around to it any time soon. If this project gains any traction, i&apos;ll add more detail. It doesn&apos;t seem like there are many of these Pocket Geiger Type 5 out there. Here is a video of it working: <a href="https://youtu.be/7wrIiGUqmes" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/7wrIiGUqmes</a>
  • 1 × Raspberry Pi Zero This could be any Raspberry Pi but my case design requires a Pi Zero
  • 1 × Pocket Geiger Type 5 This are from radiation-watch.org and I got mine from spartkfun.com. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14185
  • 1 × Adafruit 0.56" 4-Digit 7-Segment Display w/I2C Backpack https://www.adafruit.com/product/879
  • 1 × Piezo Buzzer I had one lying around that I bought from radioshack. I don't have a like or data sheet for it.

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facelessloser wrote 01/25/2018 at 10:47 • point

Thanks for posting this project. I've been looking at how I can make a raspberry pi Geiger counter but didn't know that you could use this Geiger module.

Have you seen this new much smaller module they sell. Was wondering if I could get serial out of the headphone jack or find out what encoding they are using to talk to the phone

 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Newest-Geiger-Counter-Nuclear-Checker-to-detect-X-ray-Nuclear-Radiation-Gamma-Works-with-Smart-Phone/32297459661.html

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