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Retrofitting an iPod into a Geiger Counter

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-plain-silly dept.

Doug writes "An enterprising hardware guy known as JavaMoose on Flickr has created an amazing case mod for his iPod by modifying an old Geiger counter to house the iPod and remote. The photos are up on Flickr with descriptions along the way. Very cool, if a little big to fit in ones pocket"

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  1. Amazing? by binaryDigit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hmm, interesting yes, amazing, I'm afraid not. It did require some skill to make it a clean fit, but the geiger counter case was so large, I can't really consider it a technological feat to have done this. Now had he did this and kept a working geiger counter (recording the sounds and playing them back on the ipod to allow the ipod display to properly show levels, or something like that), now THAT would be cool.

    Next thing you know someone will put one in the keypad of their microwave (you enter time via song lengths, i.e. big meals you'd set to "Freebird"), or stick one in an original walkman case. I know, how about someone sticks a shuffle inside a Gen1 iPod? oooh, aaaah.

  2. Feedback needed by dangitman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been thinking about retrofitting an iPod into my ass. Do you think that would make a good slashdot story?

    --
    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  3. Shudder to think by midicase · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to work around nuclear reactors and monitored them for years using equipment similar to the model in the article. The desire for such a mod is alien to me as I can't imagine ever voluntarily carrying around one of those things.

    Before the time of commonplace computers, the Nuclear trained personnel in the Navy were the geekiest ones on the sub or ship. Carrying around a geiger counter was tantamount to wearing a pocket protector and sure to earn few jokes from passing workers.

  4. Re:Where's the geek? by JavaMoose · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I did have to desolder all the wires from the remote, nothing big, but there was some work involved...