This weekend at the Los Angeles hackerspace CRASH Space, we’ll be holding a hackathon: …starting on Saturday at 5pm, CRASH and Safecast are hosting a 24 hour hackathon to rally up some LA volunteers and do Cool Things™ with the internets. The focus will primarily be on all of the web-related things that it takes…
Safecasting inside the evacuation zone
If you’ve been following our measurements and discussions surrounding them, you know we’ve been saying that the decision to evacuate people in a set radius from the Fukushima Daiichi plant is flawed. Wind, weather, topography and many other factors ensure that radiation isn’t higher the closer you get to the plant, and lower further away,…
Grid Map Improvements
When we launched our new main map on the front page of maps.safecast.org we mentioned that was just the first step in an ongoing process aimed at providing better, more useful info. We’ve recently added another feature to it – data for each grid. If you click on any gird element you’ll now see information…
New Visualizations
One of our goals at Safecast, in addition to collecting radiation data, is putting that data into a format that is helpful and useful. If you’ve been following our work for the last few months you’ve seen the map we launched with on day one progress through several evolutions including being split out into several…
How I spent my Sunday in Fukushima
The Safecasting drives officially started after my last trip to Japan, so I’ve been watching from afar as Pieter and an ever growing volunteer team of total heros have set out time and time again to try and map the radiation levels in the areas surrounding the Fukushima plant, as well as the rest of…
Shibuya Radiation Seminar Report
Last week we announced we’d be holding radiation seminar in Shibuya – audience spots filled up quickly and the event which happened this morning was a huge success. More than 50 people showed up completely filling the space at Loftwork Ground which we were fortunate enough to have donated to us. You can see a…
Photos from Safecasting 6/26
Safecasters Joe Moross and Kalin Kozhuharov took some great behind the scenes photos on a measurement drive last month. We show a lot of little points on maps, but this is a nice chance to see some of how those points get created. セーフキャスターの Joe Moross と Kalin Kozhuharov が、先月の走行測定の舞台裏をお見せできる写真を撮影しました。地図上の測定ポイントをたくさん提供している当サイトですが、これらの測定やサンプル採取の様子を写真でご覧下さい。
Safecast Radiation Measurement Seminar
On Saturday August 6th, Safecast will be hosting a seminar on Radiation Measurement in Japan. We’re honored to have Joi Ito, Director of MIT Media Lab and Advisor to Safecast, to open the seminar and have Loftwork hosting the seminar at their wonderful facilities in Shibuya. The Safecast team will present an overview of Safecast…
shiroi voltron + shiroi nekobot
Our friends over at Incubot have just released their special edition shiroi voltron + shiroi nekobot figures designed to help with Japan relief efforts. 100% of profits will be going to Japanese Red Cross Society and to Safecast radiation monitoring efforts. We’re honored and humbled to be included in these efforts. Thanks Incubot!! Incubot の友人が、日本での救援活動を支援するために特別限定商品として「…
Safecasting Fleet
If you’ve been following along so far you know we’ve been doing all kinds of mobile Safecasting with our bGeigie devices. We’re usually showing you the readings and measurements, but thought it might be interesting to see a little bit of behind the… er… geiger counter. In the below photos you’ll our bGeigie mounted on…