A Geiger counter, also known as the Geiger-Muller tube, is an inexpensive and useful instrument used to quickly detect and measure radiation. There are two types of radiation, non-ionizing and ...

Three parallel Geiger-Muller Tubes were used in this project in order to produce a Cosmic Ray Muon Detector that is easy to build, low cost, and contains usable output to graph, visualize, or sonify.

The clicking of a Geiger counter is well enough known as a signifier of radioactive materials, due to it providing the ...

Implementing standard UART communication required use of Silego’s GreenPAK analog and digital blocks, with the end result being a Geiger counter that offers real-time radiation measurement. The Geiger ...

My first encounter with one of the devices was only about three decades after its improvement as an invention. There was no reason for me to need one prior to then. I was a young second lieutenant in ...