From Breadboard to Perfboard — Keeping It Compact
May 16 2026
With the circuit validated, it was time to move everything from the breadboard to a perfboard and build something more permanent.
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Detecting Radiation Pulses - Oscilloscope Success
May 15, 2026
We reached another important milestone this week, we successfully detected the Geiger tube pulses on the oscilloscope and connected the ESP32 to start collecting them.
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Systems Coming Online — GPS, IMU, SD Card and More
May 15, 2026
Things are moving fast. This week saw a series of important milestones as multiple subsystems came online and started working together.
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First Power-Up — The Geiger Counter is Alive
May 8, 2026
A small but important milestone this week — we got the Geiger-Müller tube running on batteries with the step-up converter.
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Components In — Development Begins
April 23, 2026
This week we collected our hardware from IST, marking the start of the hands-on development phase of CosmoMeter. It’s a milestone, but also a reality check.
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Sourcing the Right Hardware — A Lesson in Supply Chain Reality
March 22, 2026
Building a prototype is never just an engineering challenge — it’s also a logistics one. This is something we learned firsthand when trying to source the right hardware for CosmoMeter.
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