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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by acidburnNSA on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:55PM (#36501340)
My home brew weather/air quality station is seemingly totally silent, though the PM sensor does have a fan. I've never heard it.

https://partofthething.com/thoughts/weather-and-air-quality-...

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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by djmips on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @10:45PM (#36501651)
off topic - did you get your geiger counter wired in?
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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by acidburnNSA on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @11:04PM (#36501758)
Not really. I did do enough work to be able to read count rate from a ESP8266 [1] but never actually installed it in the weather station. Since then, I got a scintillator detector [2] with a USB soundcard interface which would be way better for a weather station since it could actually identify isotopes in addition to count rate. So you could get alerts like "oh dang, I-131 detected in the air, take shelter."

[1] https://partofthething.com/thoughts/making-true-random-numbe...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxXnUXrditI

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