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A common cell phone camera in fact most CCD cameras can act as radiation detectors if you cover them with optically opaque black tape. This is because they will detect the ion particles striking the CCD just like they'll detect photons.. so if your camera is covered with black electrical tape you ho

submitted by Crackinjokes to TellUpgoat 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 16:54:31 ago (+20/-1)     (TellUpgoat)

A common cell phone camera in fact most CCD cameras can act as radiation detectors if you cover them with optically opaque black tape. This is because they will detect the ion particles striking the CCD just like they'll detect photons.. so if your camera is covered with black electrical tape and you hold your phone near a radioactive source you will see white sparkles in the image of your cell phone that are the result of radioactive particles hitting the different areas of your CCD chip. There's no focusing or anything like that but knowing the different chips and the response rates in the background radiation you can determine by the number of hits per minute the amount of radioactivity in the area. There used to be in there may still be a Google app that actually exploits this fact to make your cell phone a radiation detector if you cover your camera with black vinyl tape.

Edit. Android App is "radioactivity counter" by Rolf Dieter Klein


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[ - ] temetnosce 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 20:53:55 ago (+0/-0)

Commenting to find later. Cheers!!!

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 22:23:55 ago (+0/-0)

Aye aint no ho!

[ - ] texasblood 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 23:11:17 ago (+0/-0)

But........

[ - ] Nosferatjew 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 19:08:16 ago (+1/-0)

you ho
No, you da ho. Ho.

[ - ] DukeofRaul 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 16:59:54 ago (+1/-0)

Does it just work with Alpha particles? Wouldnt think it would detect gamma.

[ - ] Crackinjokes [op] 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:01:18 ago (+1/-0)

Whatever has the power to make it through the tape the casing the lens from whichever direction it's coming through the phone

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:03:35 ago (+1/-0)

The only way to detect gamma radiation is when it's already too late and you turn into THE INCREDIBLE HULK, for some reason. Super-cancer, I guess...

[ - ] DukeofRaul 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 11:54:41 ago (+1/-0)

Or She hulk you bigot.

[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 12:28:11 ago (+0/-0)

Naw, she's a slut and she caught HULKISM like VD.

[ - ] DukeofRaul 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 13:32:09 ago (+1/-0)

Eww. Probably from that pedo Mark Ruffalo

[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 13:46:52 ago (+0/-0)

Ugh! Repulsive!

[ - ] drhitler 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 23:40:14 ago (+1/-0)

the human body is good way of detecting gamma, if you detect it your dead.

[ - ] DukeofRaul 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 07:55:30 ago (+0/-0)

Thats true. Your skin melts off first too.

[ - ] o0shad0o 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 20:38:31 ago (+0/-0)

Alpha/beta are really weak, they'll only make it through a few inches of air and even the tape you put over the sensor would tend to block them. It's gamma radiation and the occasional cosmic ray that you'd pick up.

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:01:58 ago (+1/-0)

No, YOU ho!

[ - ] PostWallHelena 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:35:38 ago (+1/-0)

Good to know.

[ - ] Crackinjokes [op] 4 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:04:41 ago (+4/-0)

Android App description on play store

REAL Radioactivity counter based on a camera sensor, no extra hardware required

Radioactivity Counter

This is a real working radioactivity counter. You only need a BLACK TAPE to cover the lenses !!

Disclaimer: The type of radiation picked up by the camera can be dangerous/detrimental to the user's health as well as cause damage to the device.

Its NOT a JOKE! The App is using the camera sensor to detect radiation, like a geiger mueller counter, of course with a smaller area. We tested several mobile phones at the Helmholtz research facility in Munich, using a professional radiation device in the range of 2-10 µGy/h till 1-10 Gy/h (CS137 and CO60). The CMOS sensors can detect primary gamma radiation and some higher beta radiation (depends on the shieldings in the mobile phone). Typically not going into saturation as most GM tubes. See FAQ on our homepage for what you can measure and how.
PLEASE SEND US FEEDBACK via EMAIL !! We add new devices in short intervals.

Attention: the tape must shield the light completely. Please check with a light source !
On our homepage you find several measurement result for different devices we tested so far. Some are excellent, some not that sensitive.
Feel free to use our table to assign radiation values to our counter measurements when you have the same device.
The real values might differ as sensors can change. There we need your help and the help of the manufactures for a future calibration service.
You can use the contact button in the help menu to provide us with feedback and please use it.


If you need any help, PLEASE send us an email. We have cannot answer the comment section below, so please ask us first on measurment problems. We help as fast as possible. Please contact us on any problems you have with this application! Look at our videos, more are comming soon. Attention: The counts per minute (CPM) for the background noise should be low (increase the noise setting if not). This is camera noise not radiation noise basically. If the radiation increases then also counts from the radiation adds to the CPM values (see our tables for the sensitivity). If you have a phone with 200 CPM for 100 uGy/h then the background noise produces for 100 nGy/h only 0.1 CPM. That means in 10 minutes ONE counts in 100 minute TEN counts adding to the CPM0 (noise of sensor). So you need a LONG time to measure for low radiation values on this device. Attention: AM241 (smoke detectors) only emit ALPHA rays, they get stuck in the plastic of the phones. H3 (tritium - watches etc) are beta emitters with 45 keV. They also get stuck quickly, mainly already in the watches. K40 (KCL for example contains 16 Bq/g) are beta emitters with small amount of gamma (due to positron collisions)- you need also a long integration time to measure them. Same for TH rods (2% Thorium) mainly alpha rays, then beta and some gamma. Very small diameter ! You need a large area to detect them (best GM with mica windows). The CMOS sensor of the camera only has 2mmx2mm.
Good objects are TH lenses (up to 30% TH232), pitchblend (gamma of decay products) and CS137 for checking food which might be contaminated (if larger 1 uSv/h). Don't experiment with radiation sources !!!

Features:
saving raw counter values in 3 different noise levels
saving temperature data
saving location (optional)
saving settings data
export by email (CSV) or file, CSV / HTML
export of mean values in Counts + standarddeviation
* unit converter (Sievert, Gray, Rem...)

We just released a comprehensive help on our homepage --
Important you NOISE value should be similar as in our tables, if it is too high check the tape to cover the lense - use multiple tapes if necessary and start calibration again !!! Please before writting a bad one star comment write us we will help you very quickly PLEASE !!!
more videos on our homepage -

instruction and help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJcOq5sLxPo
some more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsG6JsMAJ_Q

[ - ] Rawrination 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 02:05:35 ago (+0/-0)

Cool do they have a iPhone version for my apple loving friends?

[ - ] Laputois 4 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 18:25:19 ago (+4/-0)

Saw a video a sailor posted to a Facebook group I belong to where the ship was being repped up(taking on supplies from another ship) someone was running a radar that should not have been emitting and it was obvious he and everyone else on deck were getting the fuck radiated out of them. I have EMF meters and live in an area where they cannot install cell phone towers. Visitors to my house will step out on the porch and contort trying to get signal. I would not live near a tower

[ - ] qwop 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 23:42:08 ago (+0/-0)

Where do such areas exist? Is this in the US?

[ - ] Rawrination 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 02:01:04 ago (+1/-0)

There’s a handful of scientific research places and a few gated kike filled communities. Or just get far enough from a major city and road and in a valley. Deadzones for cell signals but maybe life zones for living beings?

[ - ] Laputois 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 15:13:35 ago (+0/-0)

Anywhere near a major airport. You can get cell service within the airport but the FAA and FCC prohibit towers in flight paths and the possibility of avionics and radio transmissions. My guests get 1 bar on a cell phone OUTSIDE my house while standing on one foot with their dick and tongue hanging out.

[ - ] dalai_llama 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 17:02:07 ago (+0/-0)

lol, so you're being irradiated with ATC frequency RF instead of cell frequency RF. Okay smart guy.

[ - ] Laputois 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 20:56:14 ago (+0/-0)

Are you not capable of reading? I posted that I am able to measure emf. I am not being radiated. My rate in the Navy was in Electronic Warfare. I specialized in electronic emissions. So yeah. In this subject, I am a smart guy.

[ - ] TheYiddler 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 07:47:37 ago (+0/-0)

Not all EMF is ionizing. the gamma rays from radiation definitely is, but cell towers shouldn't be. If it can't penetrate the electrical tape you're fine.

[ - ] qwop 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 12:20:31 ago (+0/-0)*

Ionizing just means a single photon has enough energy to push an electron out of orbit from an atom or molecule.

But you do not need to push electrons out of orbit in order to induce biological effects. There is no law that says ionization is the only requirement for harm. People that say such things are either trying to sell you wireless technology, or they do not know better.

In fact it is written in basic physics, called Maxwell's equations, that all forms of non-static electromagnetic fields will induce a force upon a charged particle or polar molecule. Ionization is not required to induce this force. In plain English it means any RF radiation will act upon any charged particle or polar molecule inside your body.

The next question you should then ask, well does my body contain any charged particles or polar molecules? If the answer is yes, then it means electromagnetic fields can not NOT affect these particles inside your body. Like I said, per Maxwell's equations, ionization is not required for these effects.

If you still doubt there are biological effects, you can browse the EMF-portal database maintained by Aachen University in Germany. Their database currently contains 36,472 publications on the effects of electromagnetic fields in biology.

https://www.emf-portal.org/en

This is why you do not want to stand in front of radar beams, or why it's better for your health long-term to not live in highly irradiated areas.

[ - ] dalai_llama 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 17:10:38 ago (+0/-0)

No one ever doubted that RF poisoning is real. What he's saying is that the dosage isn't high enough to cause long term damage. There are published maximum permissible exposure limits. Of course RF poisoning is bad. Everyone lives in an irradiated field of EM radiation. The UV rays of the sun cause skin cancer. That doesn't mean stop going out in the sun. It means limit your exposure accordingly.

RF poisoning doesn't matter anyway. It's only going to become a problem for city folk and who gives a fuck about those niggers anyway?

[ - ] TheYiddler 0 points 2.8 yearsSep 1, 2022 07:45:41 ago (+0/-0)

Microwave is non ionizing but can still cook you, sure.

Might be worth buying or making some tools to measure the em flux near cell towers.