{"id":15442,"date":"2021-09-01T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=15442"},"modified":"2021-09-02T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T22:09:09","slug":"the-mightyohm-geiger-counter-kit-turns-10-geiger-kits-are-10-off-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/the-mightyohm-geiger-counter-kit-turns-10-geiger-kits-are-10-off-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"The MightyOhm Geiger Counter Kit turns 10! Geiger Kits are 10% off in September!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This year marks the ten year anniversary<\/a> of the MightyOhm Geiger Counter kit<\/a>. To celebrate ten years of kits, Geiger Counter Kits will be 10% off for the entire month of September.<\/a><\/p>\n

The year is 2011. It’s early summer. Mitch<\/a> has been soliciting workshop ideas for Chaos Camp 2011<\/a>. The Fukushima Daiichi disaster<\/a> had just occurred in March of that year, so radioactivity and nuclear monitoring was on everyone’s mind. I had been working on a (still unfinished) project to detect cosmic rays, so I had some Geiger tubes and a bunch of AVR microcontrollers on hand.<\/p>\n

When I packed the first 30 kits in my suitcase and flew to Berlin to give my first Geiger Counter workshop at Chaos Camp 2011, I had no idea how successful this kit would become. I did not expect that the kits would sell out within minutes of arriving at Camp. I certainly did not expect that I’d still be building and selling Geiger Counter kits ten years later, at least in part because Geiger tubes were in very short supply at that time.<\/p>\n

Here’s a taste of Chaos Camp 2011, thanks to Maurice Wessling. Remember when quadcopters were new and 3d printers were made of wood?<\/p>\n