Open AccessA Small Geiger Counter Array
Author(s) -
Andres Adams,
Ethan Brauer,
Jon Stroman
Publication year - 2011
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.31274/ahac.5605
Subject(s) - geiger counter , electrical engineering , electronic circuit , computer hardware , microprocessor , pulse (music) , computer science , particle detector , optics , physics , engineering , detector
The Balloon Assisted Stratospheric Experiments (BASE) program at DePauw University has flown Geiger counters on more than forty flights since November 2006. Currently, three RM-60 Geiger counters from Aware Electronics are used in the array. The signal from each counter is fed to a 555 based one-shot circuit to produce a clean pulse. The pulse outputs are processed by an array of Basic STAMP microprocessors from Parallax Corporation. Data is stored in the non-volatile memory of each STAMP microprocessor.
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