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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.

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.

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.

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.

Website Update — Key Studies on Radiation and Aviation

March 13, 2026

As CosmoMeter develops, it’s important to ground our work in the existing scientific literature and regulatory landscape. We’ve added a new page to our website accessible under More > Related Documents compiling the key studies, papers, and directives that inform our project.

From User Needs to Technical Specs — What We Took Away

March 11, 2026

Today we attended a seminar on Requirements Engineering at IST — “From the User’s Voice to the Technical Specifications of the Prototype” — led by two guest speakers with hands-on experience building hardware-software products: Rúben Oliveira, founder of Vision Volt, and Diogo Henriques, founder of Genoa Spark. Their practical perspective gave us a valuable outside view on where CosmoMeter stands and where it needs to go.