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CosmicPI: Detecting Cosmic Rays with a Raspberry Pi

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  • @Maarrk
    @Maarrk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +426

    Do you even realize how advanced of a hacker this man is to make THIS VIDEO'S ADDRESS START WITH "PCB"?

    • @DrTune
      @DrTune 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      That's why each video takes so long to post, he has to keep uploading and deleting it until the URL is right

    • @rubiconnn
      @rubiconnn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nice, the chance of that happening in the same case are 1/262,144

    • @John_Smith__
      @John_Smith__ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol! Well he is sponsored by jlcpcb .... :)

    • @forloop7713
      @forloop7713 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rubiconnn your math is wrong

    • @rubiconnn
      @rubiconnn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@forloop7713 how so?

  • @lbgstzockt8493
    @lbgstzockt8493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +481

    Two uploads in less than a year? I love it

    • @gavengriesel4675
      @gavengriesel4675 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah same, I was like this can't be right..

    • @magnus0re
      @magnus0re 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      F

    • @Breakingcraft
      @Breakingcraft 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bless!

    • @Gigabecquerel
      @Gigabecquerel 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      better not get used to it

    • @ikbendusan
      @ikbendusan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      he posts more often on patreon

  • @reps
    @reps  3 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    One day late for pi day 😥

    • @tomaszkarwik260
      @tomaszkarwik260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      xd

    • @kapteniglo7404
      @kapteniglo7404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Approximating Pi to be 3.15 is good enough for engineers though

    • @EgonSorensen
      @EgonSorensen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      piTY it is the day after that (m.ππ.TY) ~ 3 14 *15* 926535....

    • @SplicesAndCelluloid
      @SplicesAndCelluloid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@kapteniglo7404 I think you mean pi=e=3 is good enough for engineers. He's in the right month at least :P

    • @namewarvergeben
      @namewarvergeben 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SplicesAndCelluloid Well, if 3 is good enough for engineers then 3.15 is clearly good enough too because the absolute error is smaller.

  • @pirminborer625
    @pirminborer625 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Collegue: What did you do this weekend?
    Marco reps: Nothing special, just built a muon detector for CERN just for fun...

    • @TomKappeln
      @TomKappeln 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No no ... this is only what he let us see !
      In reality he GENERATES black holes ...

  • @whatdamath
    @whatdamath 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    amazing stuff! I hope they have a version for those of us who are solder challenged

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was thinking the same thing: my hands shake too much to do all that SMC stuff.

    • @RayIrv
      @RayIrv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Anton you here?! ... Love your content

    • @heylel1841
      @heylel1841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Neat Wonderful Anton is also here

    • @teknoman117
      @teknoman117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@AlanCanon2222 I used to be terrified of the SMD parts. Eventually I just bit the bullet and made a board with 0603 components and some small pitch SMDs. The thing I ended up learning is that even if you short the pins on accident, decent solder wick and a bit of patience will let you fix it. Within about 6 months I got up to being able to hand solder 0.5mm pitch TQFPs fairly quickly. I guess I just had to learn how to be patient and that small mistakes along the way typically won't actually break anything.

  • @AsymptoteInverse
    @AsymptoteInverse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    You're always building the kinds of projects I would build if 1) I had a little more money to spare, and 2) my brain worked a little better. Always a pleasure to watch.

  • @Toleich
    @Toleich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Looks like a fun project to participate in.
    * sees PCB *
    nope.jpg

    • @TomKappeln
      @TomKappeln 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here ... lol

  • @Sx107music
    @Sx107music 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    By the way: the particular signal amplitude does not matter that much in this exact application apart from distinguishing cosmic ray muons/electrons from each other and from other radiation sources. The particular muon energy does not contain much information, since after cosmic rays hit the atmosphere a huge particle shower is produced (just as you said), in which most of the information is, unfortunately, lost (for example, it is much easier to detect the initial particle mass (A) than it's charge Z). Most of the information is restored from the number of particles in the shower, not from their energy.
    Besides, the signal amplitude won't change very much with changing muon energy due to the particular "particle energy - energy losses (which signal amplitude is nearly proportional to)" curve - the bethe-bloch curve. That is why calorimeters, which absorb the particle, are way more precise in energy detection. Absorbing a muon requires a shitton of tungsten/lead and a huge number of detectors to acquire the precise path the particle has traveled and it's energy losses along the way. In short, there are ways around this problem (not only with a calorimeter straight approach), but certainly not cheap and easy ones. Signal amplitude usually in these applications contains more information about the particle type, not it's energy (for example, the signal amplitude is proportional to Z^2 and detecting the particle charge is way easier).
    Just to be clear: I am talking about registering cosmic ray muons, which are relativistic. At low energies the signal amplitude do rely on the particle energy - see bethe-bloch curve, again.

    • @Sx107music
      @Sx107music 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Probably the first time experimental nuclear physics education paid off

    • @tiporari
      @tiporari 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Sx107music lol

    • @sonotthere
      @sonotthere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      interesting. thank you for posting

    • @PeterMilanovski
      @PeterMilanovski 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What's a muon or electron look like? How can anyone know what is being detected if no one knows what is being detected?

    • @Sx107music
      @Sx107music 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@PeterMilanovski First, don't deny the existence of things that you can't perceive with your own senses, that's solipsism. Second, you can calibrate the detector, for example, with a known beta-radiation source (that is, it emits an electron) and see to which of the signal peaks it more or less corresponds in the signal amplitude distribution (but you will also have to consider the energy). Third, the understanding of cosmic rays, atmospheric particle showers and nuclear physics in general is so developed today, that you can just run a simulation of an atmospheric shower (in CORSICA or FLUKA, for example) and a simulation of particles passing through your detector (in GEANT4, for example) to see which signal amplitudes are you expecting, though at least some experimental calibration would be great - and, as it happens, a classical way of calibrating nuclear physics equipment is using cosmic ray muons, so in our case that's no problemo.

  • @TechGorilla1987
    @TechGorilla1987 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Literally nobody: Have you heard about the Dry German Scientist Comedian?
    Me: Yes, I am subscribed with all notifications.

  • @pe5erbarnes
    @pe5erbarnes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I'm using some BME280's for my dissertation: they're really nice sensors, 10/10 would use again!

    • @funtechu
      @funtechu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep, definitely a favorite. I'm surprised they are out of stock right now, but I guess they are just that popular (and there is the chip shortage).

  • @pissmilker2313
    @pissmilker2313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    The Geiger counter sounds in the beginning fooled me. I thought I had a dying smoke detector in my house.

    • @killsalot78
      @killsalot78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      same

    • @DrTune
      @DrTune 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah on headphones; I thought "f-it! I just changed the batteries"

    • @jean-pauldemars9588
      @jean-pauldemars9588 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just replaced mine today too and then same thing happened to me too. Lol

  • @sarkasaa
    @sarkasaa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ive lost count as to how often i have already rewatched all your videos, yet they always keep me hooked

  • @drdiesel1
    @drdiesel1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Love your content and sense of humor, hope one day to buy you a cold beer.

    • @STriderFIN77
      @STriderFIN77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i have been here before, butt Now i subcribed o.O

    • @MarionMakarewicz
      @MarionMakarewicz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That is my level of Patreon support for @MarcoReps. $3.00 a month. So I get him one beer a month. Reflecting on this it seems a bit stingy.

  • @tomaszkarwik260
    @tomaszkarwik260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    me: :(
    me after seing this a Marco Reps video : :)

    • @fffmpeg
      @fffmpeg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      pozdrawiam

    • @tomaszkarwik260
      @tomaszkarwik260 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fffmpeg pozdrawiam także

  • @SuperSmashDolls
    @SuperSmashDolls 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    For a second I thought this involved turning the DRAM on a Raspberry Pi into a cosmic ray detector.

  • @teknoman117
    @teknoman117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I really hope that the component supply clears up by 2022. A project I was working on that I was hoping to turn into a kickstarter is completely on hold because like everything that isn't a dip part from 20 years ago or a passive is out of stock. FPGAs are gone, HDMI drivers are gone, ethernet PHYs are gone, USB2 ULPI and USB3 PIPE chips are gone, etc. I'm trying my luck with utsource at the moment...

  • @brucewilliams6292
    @brucewilliams6292 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Marco Reps hits the air; a smile hits my face! Thanks as always for the laughs and the projects. You really make my day.

  • @Sheevlord
    @Sheevlord 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just yesterday I was rewatching some of your older videos, thinking "when is he going to release a new one?" Talk about serendipity!

  • @piconano
    @piconano 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You are insanely talented.
    I love and watch your videos at least twice.
    Your videos are on another level.

  • @mikemines2931
    @mikemines2931 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Many thanks Marco, always worth dropping in. More projects like this please, how I miss the Amateur Scientist in Scientific American.

  • @muonpi778
    @muonpi778 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just like Gigabecquerel, we are also investigating the possibility to make our own scintillators, but we still need to get the process down. Right now we are struggling to get it free from bubbles but we do already see some photons. Lots of work, but very fun and interesting.

    • @TomKappeln
      @TomKappeln 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A oil bath with ultrasonic does the trick. ;-)

  • @labiadh_chokri
    @labiadh_chokri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice video as always, I found a sat view of my country Tunisia at 2:27 .

  • @gregorymccoy6797
    @gregorymccoy6797 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The humor... Oh my. Awesome video and project.

  • @ruadeil_zabelin
    @ruadeil_zabelin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Plastic scintillator SLAPS. "WHAT?!" :D

    • @Gameboygenius
      @Gameboygenius 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So Marco is a slapper...

    • @vathevladimir
      @vathevladimir 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Checkmate! 👆

    • @JoanDoe-pq5fu
      @JoanDoe-pq5fu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      We can now measure and study the holy slap.

  • @jabinstateresa
    @jabinstateresa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I'm waiting for the moment that reps is finally sponsored by keysight.

  • @sjekx
    @sjekx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    amazing to see someting related to my work at this site. We use Nal crystals with photomultipliers to look at radiation underground. Very cool Marco!

  • @luppa79
    @luppa79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like that technique of getting an SMD part out with flame-heated small pliers! I gotta build something like those pliers with heat-resistant handles.

  • @nyceyes
    @nyceyes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm always excited to see a video posted here. 🎊🎉 Thank you for this video uploader! 🤗

  • @DouglasFish
    @DouglasFish 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey! I have a ton of those BME things in my house. Cool to see you de-solder one. Thank you!

  • @mitfreundlichengrussen1234
    @mitfreundlichengrussen1234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As always entertaining like hell, including a cool foot warmer hack. By far beyond my personal capabilities still triggering some neurons in my brain. Thank you.

  • @jebstalp
    @jebstalp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice Bass and Davie504 reference! EPICO! And nice video as allways

  • @TazkoHoZabit
    @TazkoHoZabit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Blitzortung" is a nice project, similiar network, but for lightning detection. I recommend a look.

  • @wallaceshackleton1889
    @wallaceshackleton1889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a beautiful little video. Totally boffin-ish from my point of view and out of my technical reach.
    More power to you Pi-rotons!

  • @sawmebabe
    @sawmebabe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your narration and sense on humor. Don't understand the details but love the projects.

  • @ToTheGAMES
    @ToTheGAMES 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Speaking of Bionerd, havent seen her around in ages. Hope she's still ok.

    • @dtiydr
      @dtiydr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Something is up for sure, either she is dead or very sick (not totally unlikely due to her highly unhealthy interest in radiation in a very unhealthy way) or "people" has told her to not putting up any more videos or things will go bad if she do and the same if she would give of any information about that someone have told her not to, would be my guess.

    • @ryanmalin
      @ryanmalin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dtiydr What? Thats a lot of guessing. Hopefully none of it is true.

    • @dtiydr
      @dtiydr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ryanmalin Yea I thought its better to know if more ppl see this so I just did some digging. It seem that she made and put up some (unauthorized) videos of some radioactive things or such inside an forbidden abandon hospital and was blacklisted for those videos (now deleted). Then later she was found by the police in a forbidden area.
      Among with videos that she had posted around that time probably illegally as it seem (deleted) Ukraine now thought that enough is enough and banned her for life for ever entering again. This was her second home so she had a personal crisis after that and the place where the videos came from.
      I also found a person that had tried to hire her for a video in Ukraine but the person that was in charge for it said that she was banned from ever entering again.
      Found some info from the previous year that she is continue her educating in Germany. So she is ok as such but as it seem so would it probably unfortunately never be anymore videos posted on that account again.

    • @TomKappeln
      @TomKappeln 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dtiydr As far as i know, all true ...
      Greets from Germany. ;-)

    • @TomKappeln
      @TomKappeln 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dtiydr Her biggest mistake was to take the small Plutonium piece with her to the hotel, this is a no go.
      Filming that all and upload it, the second no go ...

  • @thesciencefurry
    @thesciencefurry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    What the hell, I'm just researching on this topic and this video was just uploaded today :o
    I actually bought some photodiodes already, to build some simple circuits. I did look at scintillator materials. But for now I want to try it with x ray intensifying screen, because I have it there and I'm only able to get large chunks of the scintillator plastic.

    • @jheregreign
      @jheregreign 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same,. crazy at least cosmic pi

  • @fr3shlama
    @fr3shlama 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "Cheap (

    • @TomKappeln
      @TomKappeln 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cheap !
      If you had try to build this 5 years ago, you know why. (add 2 zeros)

  • @whiteflag2366
    @whiteflag2366 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The best stand-up technical comedian.

  • @brokepilot6969
    @brokepilot6969 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope I can one day get all the tools & such needed to build one of these one day! Looks very cool & it seems to be helping the scientific community.

  • @Toxicity1987
    @Toxicity1987 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm already on the waiting list for an MuonPi, but i probably can get it to work with the CosmicPi project too.

    • @muonpi778
      @muonpi778 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      nice :)

  • @teknoman117
    @teknoman117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ordered some 4 layer board from jlcpcb to make an HDMI adapter for a FPGA board I have that only spits out LVDS. The redriver/level shifter chip is an 0.4mm pitch QFN that has 30 pins under a 4.5mm by 2.5mm package. I hope the stencils are good...

  • @appercumstock3017
    @appercumstock3017 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Marco...we need new video in these barren times!!

  • @HouseGurke
    @HouseGurke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I NEVER expected a Davie504 reference in a Marco Reps video (at 5:29)

  • @Gigabecquerel
    @Gigabecquerel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great video, love it!

  • @ablebaker99
    @ablebaker99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is also the "CosmicWatch" project that may be of interest. Unlike the "CosmicPI," you need to build at least 2 "CosmicWatch" units to detect the muons.

  • @PhG1961
    @PhG1961 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    By far one of your most amazing projects ! Really awesome. Since I have a some scintillator recycled stuff... I'm tempted to do some tinkering...

  • @rowlandcrew
    @rowlandcrew 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Marco, even if your broken NaI crystal were not broken, it and your two slab plastic scintillator are more like two digit spectrometers. If you want a real 9 digit radiation detector, the only one smaller than a truck (e.g. smaller than grand sasso macro) is the Fission Meter, which easily can identify a cosmic ray interaction. No need to rely on magical thinking that small uncalibrated scintillators will be better than a random number generator. Try collimating a gamma ray source perpindicular to your plastic slabs and proving that coincident pulses look different from the thorium and uranium in your house concrete/masonry. Let me know if you want some help.

  • @Sazoji
    @Sazoji 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    MARCO: quick reminder, pixel-based censors on commandline text and numbers are easily decoded, text deblurring is like a beginner network to teach people how to make effective datasets.
    like, you almost should reupload before someone takes it as a challenge to find your GPS coordinates.

  • @MrYukon2010
    @MrYukon2010 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are the German "This Old Tony". Love it!

  • @nicknorthcutt7680
    @nicknorthcutt7680 ปีที่แล้ว

    "That tells you when something spicy is in the air" 😂

  • @nefariousyawn
    @nefariousyawn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm really glad you still post on TH-cam. I really enjoy your channel, but I frequently forget to check for uploads on Odysee. Even when your video topics dip into depths that I have a hard time following, your narration and sense of humor makes it enjoyable nonetheless.

  • @larcomj
    @larcomj 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    that hot plate is sweet. gonna have to pick one of those up. Awesome video as always.

  • @TheSwiip1
    @TheSwiip1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love the mini hot plate, mine arrived a week ago, now i can reflow small boards at home :)

  • @Spacefish007
    @Spacefish007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8:25 good to see that some people have the same idea :). I use a 3D-Printer Hotbed for the same purposes :D

  • @YukuriuddoHerusaizu
    @YukuriuddoHerusaizu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dont pixelate black it out completely! using deeplearning people made some software with you can recover pixelated blocks of text. (I havent tried it out yet my self but I think people should be aware of it)
    Great video though!

  • @astrophotographyenthusiast5273
    @astrophotographyenthusiast5273 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Didn’t even watch the full video yet but holy shit I am so excited. This looks so cool!

  • @ulwur
    @ulwur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In a previous career I repaired many a scintillation detector and I'm surprised you got it light tight enough with just black gaffatape. These things are pretty sensitive to ambient light.

  • @provuksmc6619
    @provuksmc6619 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    11:49 Those lines in the script 🤣

  • @yasurikressh8325
    @yasurikressh8325 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very exciting project. Thank you

  • @lernenmitrobin
    @lernenmitrobin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thumbs up after the first second. I'm sure I won't get disappointed

  • @wackyvorlon
    @wackyvorlon 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can also use the scintillator+PMT to build a gamma spectrometer.

  • @K.D.Fischer_HEPHY
    @K.D.Fischer_HEPHY 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You have my full Repspect for you work, Sir.

  • @marcmarc172
    @marcmarc172 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    No way! I was just thinking about this idea!! Thanks Marco!

  • @goldenpiston8449
    @goldenpiston8449 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    tbh, I would legit solder everything for this guy if he sent the shit to my lab, my way of supporting the channel

  • @Arsonist42
    @Arsonist42 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    torch and tweezers to remove smd components is a new one to me, frigging awesome !

  • @TheSakzzz
    @TheSakzzz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    JLC PCB seems to be the Raid shadows of the electronics world :D

  • @SpartasPhalanx
    @SpartasPhalanx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I do the hardware design on a similar project at GSU. github/muontelescope has some stuff, a bit different topology and design, but still fun! Looking to have 40 detectors deployed this year.

  • @420oppa69
    @420oppa69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    5:28 Davie504?

  • @navid9852
    @navid9852 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great project of yours.

  • @spokehedz
    @spokehedz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    While it doesn't work for every situation, I find that having a hot glue gun with a stick of black colored hot glue makes quick work of light leakage without any sticky residue everywhere... Just where you put the glue.
    I'd love to run one of these, if the dev's want to have someone from the USA running a board.

  • @johnk7302
    @johnk7302 ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw another technology used where it was a big device that required cooling or something i don't really remember but it was much bigger and relied on a different tech I believe not sure anymore

  • @964cuplove
    @964cuplove 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    There is a hint of Werner Herzog in that Voice - like the bad guy in Jack reacher....

  • @damustermann
    @damustermann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing project, thanks Marco for the heads up.
    Btw, have you seen Zack Freedmans video about modding the Keysight Oscilloscope? I couldn´t stop thinking about your reaction to that an laughed out loud.

  • @John_Smith__
    @John_Smith__ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Marco Great Awsome video once again!! ... and on your last video you told me about the CERN repo of cool projects .. .a Gold Mine for everyone to explore no doubt! But I also told you last time ... I do not like vapor phase cooking to solder the chips ... never liked that process and now you also know why :) ...

  • @jokerace8227
    @jokerace8227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like it. Do you think a Schumann Resonance meter is practically possible with Pi?
    ☕🐸

  • @yaroc07
    @yaroc07 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a wonderfull project! I would appreciate a radon only detector too :)

  • @Veptis
    @Veptis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I do have some Germaium scrap pieces from thermal imaging lenses. Would these provide me an option to detect radiation?

  • @antoineroquentin2297
    @antoineroquentin2297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've been following the cosmic pi project for some years and already wondered how that single cosmic pi in germany got up there. So I assume that's yours on the map :)
    I hope there will be soon a model for normalsterbliche.

    • @TomKappeln
      @TomKappeln 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Will be the same as with "Blitzortung", takes a while and than BOOOOM.

  • @gnif
    @gnif ปีที่แล้ว

    I still smile when I see my little project (stm32flash) pop up and be used by someone far smarter then I am :)

  • @crusaderanimation6967
    @crusaderanimation6967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8:20
    So.. you can use it as foot warmer
    *NOTED*

  • @column.01
    @column.01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Was just binging all your videos, are you reading my mind?

  • @chalkchalkson5639
    @chalkchalkson5639 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just FIY Geier-Müller counters are not really ideal for tissue dosimetry. The physics of how they detect different types of radiation is more or less independent from the physics that makes radiation harm us. PMMA as a scintillator coupled to a good photo-multiplier tube/diode is technically preferable since PMMA is tissue equivalent. The cross-sections of the various interactions in PMMA are very similar to tissue, so when you get a reading in PMMA you can be reasonably confident it will be no more than 2% (usually about 1%) different from that in tissue. With Geier counters you just calibrate and hope that the radiation you encounter has been adequately accounted for my the manufacturer calibrating your Geiger counter to display mSv.
    The disadvantage is that you need an expensive photo detector and the whole assembly tends to be more bulky for similar sensitivity. But there is a reason we often use PMMA phantoms in testing new CT scanners or radio therapy equipment.
    Kinda cool that plain old plexiglass glows when irradiated, isn't it? Now that I'm saying that, I don't think I've ever seen a photo of that, only plots and data in papers..

  • @josseman
    @josseman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great to see that you’re also publishing your videos on Odysee Marco! Many of my favourite German vloggers do. I much prefer it over the TH-cam platform.

    • @vizionthing
      @vizionthing 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for noting this : for anyone else migrating over its @reps

  • @andymouse
    @andymouse 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, fascinating stuff I am definitely gonna look at those " Chocy bars "...cheers.

  • @LegacyVision.
    @LegacyVision. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Due to the public link to the Grafana and the limited data set on the map, blurring the GPS data doesn't do much unfortunately when the location is pinpointed on the Grafana page.

  • @letai1776
    @letai1776 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should backup your data frequently. Sdcard don't like being written to constantly, mine fail after just 2 year, and I don't even log that much. I heard some people keep their for 5-10 years but no reason to risk it, especially when time series data are usually very compressible

  • @emrechomko747
    @emrechomko747 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should try making a Hydrogen Line radio telescope. It’s basically an antenna and an RF front-end that’s tuned to receive and measure the strength of 1.42GHz radio waves that are naturally emitted by Hydrogen atoms. If you mount this contraption on a pan and tilt mechanism you can raster-scan the sky and create an image!
    If you wanna go further, you can measure the frequency deviation of the incoming radio waves from their centre frequency of 1,420,405,751.7667MHz, plug it into a Doppler Shift equation and see the direction and speed of the objects in the sky! Just the idea of it is enough to turn me on XD

  • @lllllll396
    @lllllll396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just wondering did you use optical gel for the SiPM and the scintillating plastic?

  • @weerobot
    @weerobot 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow..Marco always Blows my Mind..

  • @andreiciora2765
    @andreiciora2765 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool project .

  • @sethery7826
    @sethery7826 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve got a Scintillation Detector from the 1950s. It is a Precision Radiation Instruments Model 111B. I got it working at one point, but it has since sat around :(

  • @1kreature
    @1kreature 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always use Eurocircuits eC stencils and already have their eC stencil fix for €15.
    No manual alignment of stencils, great result every time.
    Not quite as low as china prices though.

  • @camk2552
    @camk2552 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for these videos. Super cool and interesting.

  • @Tedlasman
    @Tedlasman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OMG yesssssssssss
    I wish I had money to get on your patreon.

  • @vejymonsta3006
    @vejymonsta3006 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic project. Love it

  • @LoganGuerra
    @LoganGuerra 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome, I'm interested in using this in an effect pedal or modular synthesizer.

  • @holof443
    @holof443 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Black hot glue exists! idk if you would have wanted to use that tho

  • @skyalchemist0
    @skyalchemist0 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Id love to build one!

  • @jakobwilmesmeier9512
    @jakobwilmesmeier9512 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice Project and really well done! If tried an similar project using six photodiodes to detect cosmic rays, but didn't ever get to finish it :(

  • @albygnigni
    @albygnigni 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You went all in with CERN stuff!