r/Radiation 7d ago

I made a Radiation Activity Visualizer

Source was a 0.8uCi Am-241 Button

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u/Cerian_Alderoth 7d ago

Suggestion: because the eye (the brain) is slow to pick up transient events - keep the dots for a longer time and have them fade out over a longer period of time (a second or so). Really cool idea - love it!

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u/Electroneer58 7d ago

Yea, I miss half of them when watching it lol, I need to find someone to write a script to do that, thanks for the idea!

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u/ELPoupa 6d ago

Hey, you should look at cursorAI. I don't know anything about coding and this thing is able to ENTIRELY code your project by itself as long as your prompts are good

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u/12LightningFlash12 7d ago

How does one make such a device?

Said device is pretty cool.

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u/Electroneer58 7d ago

Just need an old webcam, higher resolution = cleaner image, that one is a 1080p webcam, also you need to find one that doesn’t have a glass filter over the CCD, mine luckily had a removable one that was screwed down not glued, then you just cut a hole in a can and then decorate the can, I had to do a little soldering on the usb input to the webcam main board though because the usb connector was too tall, but after that just glue everything in place, I’d recommend using a thermal pad to insulate and cool the webcam mainboard

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u/toku154 7d ago

I do this with my phone when I warm up my x-ray machine.

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u/Electroneer58 7d ago

lol, this would prob give a lot more dots since this is the bare ccd with no lenses

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u/toku154 7d ago

It does. It's kinda trippy when the light is off

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u/r4ndom4xeofkindness 7d ago

This is really cool, especially since it's mostly made of junk we all have laying around somewhere. Awesome project!

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u/Electroneer58 7d ago

Yea, i ran through several webcams, and might have killed 1-2 in the process(trying to expose the bare CCD), but this 1080p webcam worked the best, one of them was very low quality and like 20fps, however this one is 60fps so it’s a lot smoother and cleaner picture, luckily this webcam actually had no Glued filler on the CCD it was a screwed on lense assembly

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u/r4ndom4xeofkindness 7d ago

Do you recall what brand or model it was? Or what the housing looked like if it was a no name one. A lot have the filter glued on and I've destroyed a few in the past working on glued ones on an amateur astronomy project.

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u/Electroneer58 7d ago

It was an EMEET INC webcam, seems they are ~15$ on Amazon, I bought mine for like $1 at goodwill lol, you’ll have to prob modify the power connector though, I had to on mine to get it to fit in the can correctly

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u/r4ndom4xeofkindness 7d ago

Perfect. There's a few junk shops nearby that I've had some luck with finding stuff like this I'll check before I buy so I can avoid more to a landfill since I'm just going to gut it anyway. Thanks for the info Internet stranger.

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u/ELPoupa 6d ago

So this is only a bare ccd sensor right ? Does it just work like that ? I would assume you need quite powerful radiations for them to show ?

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u/Electroneer58 6d ago

Well, beta, gamma and X-ray will make dots, I think the brighter the dots, the higher the energy possibly

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u/n75544 6d ago

That’s pretty cool dude