10月19日の渋谷でのワークショップの体験レポートを参加者であるFabCafeのフジムラさんが書いてくださいました。 フジムラさんはハンダコテを使うのも初めてだったということで、初心者の視点から書かれた、とてもわかりやすい内容に仕上がっています。
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SAFECAST bGeigie Nano Building Workshop and Good Design Award reception party at Loftwork, Saturday Oct. 19, 2013
SAFECAST is proud to announce that we have been awarded a Good Design Award for 2013, in the “Services and Systems for the Public” category. http://www.g-mark.org/award/describe/40575 SAFECAST was founded shortly after the start of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March, 2011. Independent and volunteer-run, SAFECAST has developed hardware and software systems for rapidly gathering accurate…
Safecast wins Good Design Award
Excited to announce that Safecast has won a prestigious Good Design Award for 2013. We’re hoping to produce a limited run of bGeigie Nano’s to commemorate the award – stay tuned for details on this. この度、セーフキャストが2013年度グッドデザイン賞を受賞したことを喜んでご報告します。受賞を記念して、bガイギーナノの限定版を生産予定です。詳細については別途お伝え致します。
bGeigie Nano PCB Available Now
Want to build up a bGeigie Nano from scratch? You’re gonna need a PCB, so we just posted the schematic on OSH. You can download it or order a PCB directly from them if you want to give it a shot. What’s kind of cool here is that the standard bGeigie Nano’s have blue PCBs…
Safecast iOS app now has on demand data updates
Previously the map data on the Safecast iOS app could only be updated when the app itself was updated. With the newest version that is no longer and issue and the map data can be refreshed on demand. This is huge and exciting – make sure to update the app now for the latest version!
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Alternate visualization – frequency of samples
The magi behind all things iOS in Safecast Land, Nick Dolezal, is working hard on the new version of the Safecast app (which will allow on demand refreshing of the map data) decided to whip up these alternate visualizations of the Safecast data. These maps show the frequency of samples taken – NOT READINGS OF THOSE…
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Ethan Zuckerman Goes Safecasting (and gets kicked out by armed guards)
Ethan Zuckerman, director the Center for Civic Media at MIT and friend of Safecast posse everywhere, took a bGeigie Nano for a spin the other day with the intent of checking out some depreciated nuclear facilities not too far from his house. He was successful, at least until the armed guards showed up and told him to GTFO.…
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Decon or Con? How is remediation being managed, and how effective is it?
HOW EFFECTIVE IS DECONTAMINATION ANYWAY? Does the Japanese government have a clear plan for decontaminating Fukushima Prefecture? Are the aims they’ve stated really feasible? Is anyone really able to keep track of the changing standards and guidelines? Lately the ministries tasked with managing this work, as well as spokespersons from various corners, seem to be…
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bGeigie Workshop – Aizu
A few weeks ago we gathered in Aizu with a crew of Safecast volunteers to celebrate hitting 10 million datapoints though we actually had a productive goal for the weekend as well. We held what will hopefully be the first of many bGeigie workshops based on our new bGeigie Nano kit. The idea being, get…
Safecast workshop (bGeigie-nano) in Aizu
Written by: Norio Watanabe Safecast Volunteer from Koriyama On a cloudy day in early summer, Safecast members and volunteers gathered in Aizu-Wakamatsu to hold a bGeigie Nano-assembling workshop. The workshop took place at the IT company Eyes, JAPAN Co., Ltd. courtesy of the company president Mr. Yamadera. Through the first round of measurements by car,…
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