[:en] Covering 2,000 kilometers of Japan on foot with a bGeigie on his back was a journey of rediscovery for Stefan Speidel. As an avid photographer, Stefan documented his journey taking pictures along the entire way. Get up; get ready; get going; get lost in thought; get connected to the country and its people; get…
Compose Music Using Your Safecast bGeigie Nano Data
[:en] Convert Safecast bGeigie CPM Readings To A Midi File in Less Than 10 Minutes! For the past couple of years, I’ve been inspired by numerous artists that have utilized Safecast radiation data and the bGeigie nano device to imagine it in ways that go outside the norms of scientific data represented in bar graphs…
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The Bgeigie Diaries: Daiichi and the Dutch connection
Rob Oudendjik is one of the very early Safecast members. He was involved in many of the projects that laid the foundation for the current generation of bGeigies, as well as the way that Safecast gathers its data. He shares his memories of the early Safecast days, as well as what keeps him involved six…
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The bGeigie Diaries: Mapping from New Delhi to ‘Little Lhasa’
Data collector: Savina Singla Data locations: Kolkata, New Delhi, North West India, area up towards McLeod Ganj, known as ‘Little Lhasa’ What’s the last data you recorded with a bGeigie? I went to Kolkata in West Bengal recently where I collected radiation data. It was very smooth. It was the first time I tried collecting…
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bGeigie Takes Part in Large-Scale Czech Radiation Emergency Exercise
Safecast’s bGeigie joined the action when Czech authorities, including the police and army, participated in the ZONA 2017 exercise at the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). The exercise simulated a radiation accident at Dukovany and was held to test protective measures and the Integrated Rescue System of the Vysočina Region and the South Moravian Region.…
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Safecasting Oshima Island
This weekend Safecast volunteer Eiji Nishikawa spent some time on Oshima Island. This area was heavily devastated by the quake and tsunami impacting tourism which has been very difficult for the residents. On top of that, there were no available radiation readings for the island and locals were very concerned and assumed the worst. We’re…
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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Safecasting with Keio University
As you may recall we’ve been working with a team from Keio University and recently equipped them with one of our bGeigie mobile sensor units. Over several days they drove through Fukushima, Iitate and Minami-soma documenting the radiation levels and taking photos of some of the destruction and neighborhoods. The map of those radiation readings…
Safecasting Iwaki
As you know, over the last few weeks our team of Tokyo based volunteers have been taking regular trips north with mobile bGeigie rigs to monitor and record radiation data. We wanted to show more behind the scenes from those trips, so here’s a few photos from a recent trip through Iwaki, Fukushima. Above: Safecast…
Making of the bGeigie
Last month I talked about a device we’ve been lovingly referring to as the bGeigie. We concepted it out for the first mobile run and then replicated it for a series of runs last week. The “b” stands for “Bento” and since we’re building these units into cute little boxes we thought that was fitting.…