Collaborate Disseminate
These days, it’s plenty easy to build a Geiger counter with a microcontroller that has a nice fancy display and a simple digital readout for how many radiations you’re likely …read more Continue reading Building an Analog Geiger Counter
When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, the resulting steam explosion and lack of any kind of containment …read more Continue reading Chernobyl’s Robots, or the Hackathon From Hell
There are a surprising number of experiments an amateur nuclear physicist can perform, from making a Geiger counter to fusing hydrogen atoms in a fusor. One project which we haven’t …read more Continue reading A Benchtop Neutron Generator for the Home Reactor
In the blue corner, we have the VENUS FLYTRAP! In the red corner, we have the underdog of the century, AN ENTIRE PARTICLE ACCELERATOR. Yes, you read that right. When …read more Continue reading Venus Flytrap Takes Ride Through a Particle Accelerator
In the middle of the 20th century, the atom was all the rage. Radiation was the shiny new solution to everything while being similarly poorly understood by the general public …read more Continue reading The Hottest Spark Plugs Were Actually Radioactive
While we often get a detailed backstory of the projects we cover here at Hackaday, sometimes the genesis of a build is a bit of a mystery. Take [maurycyz]’s radiation …read more Continue reading Meter Mods Make Radioactive Prospecting More Enjoyable
A new kind of ‘camera’ is poking at the invisible world of the human body – and it’s made from the same weird crystals that once shook up solar energy. …read more Continue reading Perovskite Solar Cell Crystals See the Invisible
Radiation is a bad thing that we don’t want to be exposed to, or so the conventional wisdom goes. We’re most familiar with it in the context of industrial risks …read more Continue reading Food Irradiation Is Not As Bad As It Sounds
There was a time when making a cloud chamber with dry ice and alcohol was one of those ‘rite of passage’ type science projects every nerdy child did. That time …read more Continue reading Desk Top Peltier-Powered Cloud Chamber Uses Desktop Parts
Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food we need to sustain our lives. The practice of agriculture is intimately tied to the development …read more Continue reading Could Space Radiation Mutate Seeds For The Benefit of Humanity?