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DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico

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Not only does the RP2040 have lots of compute power, it hasn’t suffered the kind of shortages afflicting other chips. I wanted to see if I could make it easy and affordable to build a spectrometer. A Raspberry Pi Pico [left] provides both compute power and the gamma-ray spectrometer’s analog-to-digital converter. James Provost.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere. But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. milliwatts.

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