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Re: Custom sensor current drain - use two sensor ports?
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Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:46:25 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
I now have a Mindstorms geiger counter. :-D
Wow cool, where are you going to obtain radioactive material (legally and
without gettting in trouble with the authorities) to test your counter? :)

Uranium or thorium ores are easily found in mineralogic collections... very nice
radio-sources ;o) Of course precise calibration is another story!

See for example http://search.ebay.com/autunite_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8

Philo



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  Re: Custom sensor current drain - use two sensor ports?
 
(...) Much easier than that - run down to the local camping store and buy some gas lantern mantles. Unless they've changed something in the last five years or so, they incorperate a reasonable amount of Th-232 which makes geiger counters click (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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  Re: Custom sensor current drain - use two sensor ports?
 
(...) Wow cool, where are you going to obtain radioactive material (legally and without gettting in trouble with the authorities) to test your counter? :) (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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