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Radioactive@Home

is a Polish science project using the distributed computing capabilities of the BOINC platform. The main goal of the project is to create a free and continuously updated map of radiation levels available for everyone, by gathering information about gamma radiation using sensors connected to the computers of volunteers willing to participate in the project. Project is completely non-commercial, participating will be free of charge (excluding cost of detector) and the software will be licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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Can I get direct access to data from my detector?
Yes, you can.

Readings for current task are stored in 'data.bin' file. Don't worry, this file isn't binary - is standard txt file and looks like:

18137,9,2012-4-8 15:23:18,593,f,0.000000
59316,25,2012-4-8 15:23:59,593,n,0.008547
99397,46,2012-4-8 15:24:39,593,n,0.017094
139915,64,2012-4-8 15:25:20,593,n,0.025641
180051,79,2012-4-8 15:26:0,593,n,0.034188
220570,95,2012-4-8 15:26:41,593,n,0.042735
261625,115,2012-4-8 15:27:22,593,n,0.051282
302104,133,2012-4-8 15:28:2,593,n,0.059829

Each kolumn in this file shows (starting from left):
1. Timestamp
2. Number of detected signals from last reading
3. Date/time of reading
4. "f" or "n" - value "f" if it is first reading from WU (Work Unit) start otherwise "n"
5. Percentage of current WU