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Inspiration

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Updated: Jul 25, 2021

My initial research had informed me that Geiger tubes were plentiful on eBay, as were circuits that could use them. My goal was to customize a Geiger circuit to feed counts back to a Raspberry Pi Zero and integrate some other sensors into a single instrument.


My first lab notebook entry is dated January 22, 2018. To place this date in context, classes did not officially begin until January 29. I was so excited to begin that I was brainstorming a week before the start of the semester.


Some of my initial sources of information were:


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