You might check with KUGN or KPNW as they may still have cartoned Conelrad/EBS era radiation detectors which might be picked up cheap. They used battery power and d'arsonval movement meters making them an easy A-D conversion and machine readable. Stream the data to a database and whip up a web page. That would be a nice way to interface radiation to Linux.
On 3/22/2011 3:30 PM, silverlining2...@gmail.com wrote: > The point of my post here...Are there any resources for open-source > devices (hardware or apps) useful for setting up a radiation detection > and reporting station (for specific isotopes), and which could be > networked and info shared publicly? > > Any such "turnkey" devices available which could be networked? > > Or is the cost out of assembling and networking such a system beyond > even thinking about? > > On a related note...Oregon has announced an "Air Monitoring Station" > website. Currently shows daily report from Portland, Corvallis > and...Eureka. But no Eugene! > > http://public.health.oregon.gov/Preparedness/CurrentHazards/Pages/DailyAirMonitoring.aspx > > Anyone aware if LRAPA or any other local government entities have > radiation detection capabilities in their air quality monitoring systems? > > We all understand background radiation exists. However some of us just > want to know about any nominal increases or decreases in overall > radiation levels, either in short term or long term, no matter the > source and no matter how one defines nominal or significance. > > And of course there are costs and benefits in everything we do, as > individuals and as a society. > > Please lets leave politics out of any discussion on this ;-) > > Silver > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
