Cosmic Pi - a low cost distributed cosmic ray detector, based on Raspberry Pi.

Note: current development of this project is now hosted on Github https://github.com/CosmicPi please check for all our latest designs and software in one place.

Cosmic rays are everywhere, flying through the atmosphere, our bodies, our computers, everything. Previously the detection and analysis of Cosmic Rays was the exclusive domain of high energy physicists. We aim to make the detection and analysis of cosmic rays accessible to students, educators and ordinary people with an interest. The Cosmic Pi started as an after work project at CERN and is available here under the CERN OHL for all to build. It uses a specially designed detector combined with the low cost hardware of the Raspberry Pi computer for data storage and online analysis.

The files here are created using the free version of EagleCAD to develop our electronics and all files available for download are in this format.

As featured in THE Port 2014 (Pier X1 team).

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