{"id":14162,"date":"2016-02-15T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14162"},"modified":"2016-02-15T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T12:00:48","slug":"portable-raspberry-pi-geiger-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14162","title":{"rendered":"Portable Raspberry Pi Geiger counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.instructables.com\/FNF\/ZNSE\/IKJ8CIIJ\/FNFZNSEIKJ8CIIJ.MEDIUM.jpg?resize=560%2C191\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Cartwright has\u00a0put together a lovely\u00a0Instructable for creating a portable Geiger counter using a Raspberry Pi. He&#8217;s used a <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/products\/geiger-counter\/\" target=\"_blank\">MightyOhm Geiger Counter kit<\/a>,\u00a0which communicates over serial to the Pi, added a PiTFT to display things on and then fashioned a case out of Plexiglass. All in all, it&#8217;s a great project and very well-documented. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Portable-Raspberry-Pi-Geiger-Counter-With-Display\/?ALLSTEPS\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Cartwright has\u00a0put together a lovely\u00a0Instructable for creating a portable Geiger counter using a Raspberry Pi. 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