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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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New detector firmware

Yesterday a new version of detector version 1 software has been released.

Currently there is a possibility to issue several commands from within the application and the actual value of radiation detected is displayed in 40 seconds interval.

  • Accepted commands allow to:
  • Turning the speaker on and off,
  • Resetting the counters,
  • Display light turning on and off,
  • Displaing custom tekst on the display.