BetterGeiger S-1 radiation detector

[RobertD]

The creator of the BetterGeiger S-1 has released a guide and an Arduino Uno sketch to use his device for basic spectrometry.
https://www.bettergeiger.com/s/Better-G ... de-V10.pdf

With minor changes to his sketch, it can be used directly with NuclearPhoenix' Gamma MCA https://spectrum.nuclearphoenix.xyz/ in serial histogram mode.

gamma_mca_spectrum.png

[NuclearPhoenix]

Hi Robert,

great to see that there is now an official way to read data from the device pretty easily.
And even with Arduino instructions, nice!

[RobertD]

Hi Matthias,

What I changed in the sketch:

- comment out all serial print commands except for the actual bin data and the line feed
- insert a separator after each bin value:

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 for (int i = 0; i < 128; i++){Serial.print(spec[i], DEC); Serial.print(";");}
 Serial.println(""); // move to next line