bGeigie Nano PCB Available Now

Want to build up a bGeigie Nano from scratch? You’re gonna need a PCB, so we just posted the schematic on OSH. You can download it or order a PCB directly from them if you want to give it a shot. What’s kind of cool here is that the standard bGeigie Nano’s have blue PCBs…

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bGeigie Workshop – Aizu

A few weeks ago we gathered in Aizu with a crew of Safecast volunteers to celebrate hitting 10 million datapoints though we actually had a productive goal for the weekend as well. We held what will hopefully be the first of many bGeigie workshops based on our new bGeigie Nano kit. The idea being, get…

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Safecast Air Force (drone program)

http://vimeo.com/channels/safecast/65520001 The above video is a hexacopter with an onboard bGeigie Nano taking radiation readings in flight and broadcasting live via wifi. It’s the result of the just finished week long Safecast hackathon that just took place in Cambridge, MA. There were a number of reasons to focus on a drone during this hackathon. Of…

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Air Prototype Show & Tell

Last night at the weekly Crash Space meeting, Naim showed off the current, working, Safecast Air prototype during show & tell, as well as an example of a possible housing using plates. We’re calling the device the “canAIRe” and may actually use a can as the housing, but this was interesting to see in practice.…

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The bGeigie Nano Kit

The biggest limitation Safecast has faced in collecting data is the limited availability of our workhorse device, the bGeigie. The design works great, but it’s expensive (each one costs us about $1000) and time consuming (building one can take an entire week) which results in us having limited numbers of them to keep in use.…

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sneak peek of things to come

This is happening, stay tuned 今日届きました。もうしばらくお待ちください。

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Information, Misinformation, Disinformation (or, "These aren't the droids you're looking for.") Part 1

“YOU CAN’T ALWAYS FIND WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR…..” [Skip to Part 2] At Safecast we assumed from the start that our data should be accurate, easy to understand, informative, well-visualized, and easily accessible. In many respects this simply reflects “best practices” in information design, as well as a vision of social responsibility in which openness…

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Information, Misinformation, Disinformation (or, "These aren't the droids you're looking for.") Part 2

GOVERNMENT MONITORING POSTS [Part 1 here] In recent months there has been a fair amount of controversy concerning the accuracy of the radiation monitoring posts the government has installed all over Fukushima prefecture, and in some neighboring prefectures as well. We wrote about it back in July, 2012: TEPCO cheating on radiation levels by using…

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Safecast X Kickstarter working prototypes

Dan brought a box full of working prototypes of the Safecast X Kickstarter devices to Tokyo for Radiex2012 – FUN!! メドコム社のダン・サイス社長が

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Is this the bGeigie Nano???

Another thing we just hacked together at the new Safecast offices this week. More info coming soon! Safecastの新事務所での今週の私達の取り組みのひとつです。詳細は追ってご紹介します。

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