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DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico

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So when I decided to build a cheap DIY scintillating gamma spectrometer, it was the natural choice—although I didn’t realize I’d find myself navigating around teething problems of the sort that often affect a first-generation integrated circuit. This article appears in the July 2022 print issue as “DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy.”.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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So the researchers bought a commercial microgenerator designed for wearable and IoT devices called the Kinetron MSG32. In the future, DIY may not even be necessary. The group fabricated their device using CFRP, sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticles, and epoxy resin. Kinefox is open source, with files published on GitHub.

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