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Geiger Counter kits are now in stock!  You can order one below or go visit the Geiger Counter kit page to learn more.

There are currently three ordering options:

• You can buy the complete Geiger Counter kit with a tested, known good SBM-20 Geiger-Muller tube included (recommended).
• You can buy the same kit with all parts except the Geiger tube (in case you already have one).
• Or, you can purchase a bare PCB only (for experimenters).

You can select one of these options below:

Geiger Kit Options

Kit with Laser-Cut Case and SBM-20 Geiger Tube $114.90 Kit with SBM-20 Geiger Tube $99.95 Kit without Geiger Tube $39.95 Laser-cut Case Only $14.95 Bare PCB Only $12.00

Shipping is via USPS Priority Mail.  Allow 1-2 weeks for order processing and delivery.

The Amp Hour #43 — Audacious Arduino Arguments

Our first four-way podcast!  Listen to me, Chris, Dave, and Jeremy chat about Arduino, high altitude balloons, hackerspaces in universities, the Google ADK, and the Maker Faire Bay Area.

Kudos to Skype for enabling us to actually pull this off!

The “Soldering is Easy” comic book that was released on Monday will be included in a cool book that Mitch Altman (@maltman23) and I are writing about How to Make Cool Things with Microcontrollers (For People Who Know Nothing). It will be published by No Starch Press later this year.

If you would like to be notified when the book is published, please submit your e-mail address below.

If you could recommend one book to a total beginner who wants to learn how to program in C, what would it be?

It shouldn’t be microcontroller-specific (more general is better), but it does need to make sense to someone with zero programming experience (in any language).

(Myself, I started with K&R, although I had some experience with BASIC (on the C64 and Apple II), Logo, and shell programming before that.)

Jan Wante made this gorgeous Wifi Radio with a modern look. It is based on my original Wifi Radio tutorials.

Not content to simply duplicate my work, he added a few creative twists of his own, including a custom handmade case made of alucobond, MDF, and real wood veneer that gives his finished radio a nice, modern look. Inside, a hacked WL-520gU wireless router running OpenWrt runs the show and an ATmega microcontroller programmed with BASCOM interfaces with a rotary encoder and graphical LCD display.

The very impressive result is shown in this video:

Nice work, Jan!