Our friends over at Incubot have just released their special edition shiroi voltron + shiroi nekobot figures designed to help with Japan relief efforts. 100% of profits will be going to Japanese Red Cross Society and to Safecast radiation monitoring efforts. We’re honored and humbled to be included in these efforts. Thanks Incubot!! Incubot の友人が、日本での救援活動を支援するために特別限定商品として「…
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Report by a Safecast Volunteer Ms. S.H. in Fukushima City
[This is a guest report by a volunteer in Fukushima City.] Fukushima City is still exposed to low-dose radiation and many people are living in anxiety. Since the nuclear disaster occurred, Fukushima City has been left exposed to radiation with no protection measures for a long period of time. Since the accident, all we had…
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New Map on Safecast.org
It should be no surprise that we think about maps a lot here at Safecast. In fact, it’s probably one of the most frequent topics of conversation. Especially maps with a lot of data and especially making that data understandable. But more than understandable, it needs to be useful. Understanding what data a map is…
Kickstarter deployment begins
Anyone who has been following our Kickstarter project knows that the main goal was to deploy 100 sensors on the ground in Japan, and that anyone who donated $1000 or more would actually be sent their own geiger counter. We’re happy to announce that as of today both of these have started happening. We’ve been…
Safecasting Tamagawa by bike
This is a guest post by Robin Scheibler — Steve and I met Sunday (June 5th) morning at 10am at the hackerspace. After quickly hacking a fix for the batteries of the brand new bGeigie-mini from Akiba, we set off on our bikes, direction of Tamagawa. We first went through Meguro-ku and stopped there to…
Safecasting Koriyama & Chiba
As you may have seen in the video we posted the other day we were looking into a hotspot in Chiba and some of the contamination there. We have a SAM 940 Radiation Isotope Identifier and some filters for our geiger counters so we’re able to do a little deeper investigation at times. What we…
Safecasting Aizu
On May 22nd, Safecast teammembers Hiroshi Yoshino and Pieter Franken drove to Aizu with bGeigies to measure the radiation levels. The measurements recorded were overall low which is great news for the residents of the area. Our team met up with some of the mother organized volunteer groups that are forming to help protect children…
bGeigie Ninja, a new and improved bGeigie
The original bGeigie design dictated that a self contained radiation sensor would be attached to a laptop and a GPS device and data would be logged and recorded through that. This system worked but required a lot of hardware. At Tokyo Hackerspace, Akiba has been working on his own sensor board design for his company…
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New survey suggests current evacuation zones flawed
A new joint survey by the US and Japan shows that evacuations based on distance from the plant is not the best approach. This confirms suspicions that wind carried radioactive particles to the northwest and many areas beyond the current evacuation zone are showing elevated levels, as well as some areas to the southwest that…
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