{"id":14142,"date":"2020-08-04T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=14142"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:45:23","slug":"oled-display-wifi-interface-lipo-and-battery-voltage-monitoring-for-the-mightyohm-geiger-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/oled-display-wifi-interface-lipo-and-battery-voltage-monitoring-for-the-mightyohm-geiger-counter\/","title":{"rendered":"OLED display, WiFi interface, LiPo and battery voltage monitoring for the MightyOhm Geiger Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14143\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/oled-display-wifi-interface-lipo-and-battery-voltage-monitoring-for-the-mightyohm-geiger-counter\/ec-r4ymu4aanfzs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ec-r4yMU4AAnFzS.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"680,510\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ec-r4yMU4AAnFzS\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ec-r4yMU4AAnFzS.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14143\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ec-r4yMU4AAnFzS-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ec-r4yMU4AAnFzS-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ec-r4yMU4AAnFzS.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joeyhagedorn\">@joeyhagedorn<\/a> recently posted photos of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joeyhagedorn\/status\/1283433422707240960\">his hacked MightyOhm Geiger Counter kit.<\/a> He added an OLED display from Adafruit, a LiPo battery, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.particle.io\/argon\/\">Particle Argon WiFi interface<\/a>, and a battery monitoring circuit that uses an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.analog.com\/en\/products\/ad8244.html\">AD8244 high impedance buffer<\/a> to avoid loading down the HV supply.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in building your own open source Geiger counter kit? <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/geiger\">Geiger Counter kits are in stock and shipping now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter user @joeyhagedorn recently posted photos of his hacked MightyOhm Geiger Counter kit. He added an OLED display from Adafruit, a LiPo battery, Particle Argon WiFi interface, and a battery monitoring circuit that uses an AD8244 high impedance buffer to avoid loading down the HV supply. Interested in building your own open source Geiger counter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/oled-display-wifi-interface-lipo-and-battery-voltage-monitoring-for-the-mightyohm-geiger-counter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OLED display, WiFi interface, LiPo and battery voltage monitoring for the MightyOhm Geiger Counter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[198,401,458,536,82],"class_list":["post-14142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kits","tag-adafruit","tag-geiger","tag-hacks","tag-particle","tag-wifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ec-r4yMU4AAnFzS.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-3G6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8363,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/dans-wi-fi-and-oled-upgrade-for-mightyohm-geiger-counter-kit\/","url_meta":{"origin":14142,"position":0},"title":"Dan&#8217;s Wi-Fi and OLED Upgrade for the MightyOhm Geiger Counter Kit","author":"Jeff","date":"February 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Over at The Sync Channel Blog, Dan Watson wrote this awesome tutorial that shows you how to add an OLED display and Wi-Fi interface to the MightyOhm Geiger Counter kit. 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