iGeigie, an iPhone-Connected Geiger Counter

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2011/04/21 @ 1:30 pm
Category Electronics, Science

If you’re not following along with the great work RDTN is doing to create networks of radiation sensors, check out just one of their projects: iGeigie, a geiger counter that plugs into your iPhone.

iGeigie – world premiere of a portable Geiger Counter with iPhone dock.

- Glass Geiger Tube can detect beta and gamma radiation
- Runs on mophie juice pack
- iGeiger app computes Counts Per Minute (CPM)
- Breadboard architecture allows for continuing upgrades and improvements
- Interface with iPhone through line-in interface
- Ability to call the iGeigie and listen to clicks

If you like what you see, be sure to support RDTN’s Kickstarter project.

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7 Responses to iGeigie, an iPhone-Connected Geiger Counter

Martin Havranek on April 22nd, 2011 at 9:05 am said:

Please stop with the endless breadboard use. Nice for quickly testing a thing but DO NOT use them for anything else. Just solder it to a prototype board. That way everything keeps working when you bump it/look at it.

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br3ttb on April 22nd, 2011 at 12:53 pm said:

and being an iPhone4, it’s already logging the position data!

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Maurizio (geiger counter engineer) on January 14th, 2013 at 4:48 am said:

It ‘an other application certainly much appreciated by users of hi-phone. But are not are declared the technical performance and sensitivity of the used Geiger tube, that from what I can see, is very small and coud not be sufficiently sensible to measure small levels of beta and gamma ionizing radiation.

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