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Description: Commercial Geiger counters can cost hundreds of dollars. With this Geiger Counter Kit you can build your own at a fraction of the price! This easy to solder kit can be built in an evening and it works just like you think it would; clicking and blinking in the presence of radiation. Is grandma's dish collection radioactive? Do bananas give off radiation? Are your granite table tops...


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The dosimeter-radiometer DO-RA (the name is derived from the first syllables of the word combination dosimeter-radiometer) contains a unique hard alpha, beta and gamma radiation sensor and can be integrated into any mobile phone (smartphone). The DO-RA is run by specially developed for this purpose software packages and a licensed operating system used by each individual mobile/smart phone. The device's...


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WikiSensor is a scientific platform (softwares) for environmental quality measurement to be used on multiple electronic devices such as cell-phones, tablets, cameras... To convert your iPhone into a radiation detector all you need to do is install the WikiSense app and stick some opaque black tape - electrician's tape should do the trick - over the iPhone's front-facing camera. Since the CMOS...


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