One of the most requested additions to the bGeigie Nano is the ability to automatically send data to the Safecast api via a paired mobile phone’s cellular connection rather than having to upload the data later via a web browser. We’ve been beta testing an option for this for a while and are excited to announce…
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Hong Kong Workshop 20-22 December 2015
[x_section style=”margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 45px 0px 45px 0px; “][x_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=”” style=”margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_image type=”none” src=”http://safecast.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IMG_7564.jpg” alt=”” link=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=””][x_text]Safecast conducted bGeigie Nano workshops in Hong Kong on December 20th,…
bGeigie at the International Aero-Gammaspectrometry Campaign 2015
Above: bGeigie Nano in front of the Czech team’s Mi-17 helicopter Note: Safecast is fortunate to have a small group of very active volunteers in the Czech Republic. The Safecast radiation map has a lot of data from the Czech Republic, almost all of it logged by Jan Helebrant and Lubomír Gryc, radioprotection professionals who work…
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Drive of the Month: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Chagan was a Soviet underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965. It left a huge lake-filled crater. Radiation levels surveyed at Lake Chagan are among the highest in the Safecast radiation database. A Safecast volunteer, who’d like to be identified simply as “Markus,” recently uploaded data from the Semipalatinsk…
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Video: "The Power of Privacy” at The Guardian online
Safecast is featured in Episode 4 of an excellent video series called “The Power of Privacy” at The Guardian online: The power of privacy (4/5): Open data: mapping the fallout from Fukushima
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bGeigie Nano Workshop in Taipei, Nov. 14-15, 2015
Joe Moross advising participants at an earlier Nano workshop in Taipei, in Oct. 2014. FabCafe Taipei will host its third bGeigie Nano workshop in Taipei on Saturday, November 14. Last years’s workshop, led by Safecaster Joe Moross, was a huge success, and Joe will be there again this time to guide participants through the process of…
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Regarding Radiation From Air Travel
[:en]Last week VOX posted an article about radiation from air travel which caught some attention and immediately people started asking us for related data. For the past several years we’ve been logging radiation readings during flights so we have a significant amount of measurements relating specifically to this. We haven’t added these “flight” measurements to…
Safecast Conference 2015 Video
http://vimeo.com/133349609 The team at Make It Creative who helped us organize the Safecast Conference 2015 put together this short (3 minute) video about the event and the project overall. We think it’s a wonderful video and hope you’ll enjoy it as well.http://vimeo.com/133349609 The team at Make It Creative who helped us organize the Safecast Conference…
Safecast X Shuttleworth
As some will already know the Shuttleworth Foundation has been a gracious supporter of Safecast and helped make our recent 4 year anniversary event possible. As one of their Fellows I’ve been fortunate to get to meet with and work with a brilliant collection of people from around the world working on similar openness-focused, potentially…
More droid trouble
Above: 77 new realtime radiation monitors made by JB Japan Brand were installed in Fukushima in March 2015 and taken offline weeks later. This unit, in front of Odaka Station in Minamisoma, has an “under maintenance ” notice posted on it. Back in December of 2012 we posted a two-part article which took a close…