Geiger counter, it's a word that most people have heard about. I'm sure everyone has seen at least one piece of media featuring the clicking box with a little dial that only tells you when you're ...

[Akiba] and the crew at Tokyo Hakerspace are still hard at work trying to help out their fellow countrymen after the recent earthquake, tsunami, and ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan. You may remember ...

Most people think a Geiger counter is expensive to make or difficult to get. But a Spanish company has designed one that you can build yourself and has sent dozens of them to Japan. Using an Arduino ...

I got some Geiger tubes a few days ago and built a very simple Geiger counter circuit that is powered entirely through the microphone jack (microphone connection provides a little power for things ...

Old Civil Defense survey meters like the V-715 are interesting conversation starters, but of very little practical use today. These devices were intended to be a sort of litmus test that survivors of ...

Here's a very interesting project, with a very worthy motive behind it, reports Technabob. Some engineers at Libelium, a wireless sensor network company, decided to help the people of Japan, around ...

Combining a Netduino Plus and a Geiger counter kit, a technical program manager at Microsoft named Fabien Royer created a tweeting radiation level monitor. Royer claims that his experience in France ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9eHxCQkRs&feature=player_embedded#!] For your perusal: a Geiger counter made in the style of HR Giger. Why? Because this is ...