WebGeiger: An Arduino based Geiger Counter
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1 Motivation
Radiation has been a longtime topic in my life over the past 30 years. I've grown up in northern Bavaria. Until mid of the 1980s there were plans to build the WAA (WiederAufbereitungsAnlage) in Wackersdorf. In 1986 there was the overwhelming Anti-WAA festival in Burglengenfeld, my home town, with more than 100.000 people having a great party. Note that the town just had 10000 inhabitants :-)
Then there was Chernobyl, which raised our fear of radiation even higher. We children were forbidden to play in the garden. And then there was Fukushima.
While Geiger counters were rather expensive tools some time ago, they are available as cheap DIY kits now, so there was the idea to build one myself. And since radiation is an environmental topic, I thought about building one that I could place somewhere outside and also read out remotely. The perfect playground for an Arduino webserver.
