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Getting Ready for Radiex
We’ll be at Radiex 2012 this week in Tokyo. If you are there, come see us!
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Safecast on GitHub
At Safecast we’ve been using GitHub to manage our code and keep things synced between teams, but those have largely been small private repositories. I’m really excited to announce today that we’ve...
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Safecast X Kickstarter working prototypes
Dan brought a box full of working prototypes of the Safecast X Kickstarter devices to Tokyo for Radiex2012 – FUN!!
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Come see us at Radiex2012, Booth #118
If you are in Tokyo this week please stop by Radiex2012 (Sept. 24 – 26) and see us at Booth #118. We have lots of devices on display!
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Safecast at Stanford’s Medicine X conference
I gave a presentation about Safecast at the Medicine X conference at Stanford today. There was a mix up with some of my slides and I’m not sure if I hit all the points I wanted to, and several people...
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Safecast iOS App
We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of the Safecast iOS app available in the App Store now. Last year we reached out to Nick Dolezal, creator of the most amazing GeigerBot, with some...
View ArticleGlobal Giving Matching Donations to Safecast!
If you’ve been considering chipping in a few dollars to help our efforts at Safecast, now is an excellent time to do that as Global Giving is running a campaign where they are matching up to $100,000...
View ArticleSafecast Short Film in Focus Forward Films semifinals
Tokyo based filmmaker Adrian Storey made this fantastic 3 minute documentary about Safecast for the Focus Forward Films competition and it’s made it to the semifinals! We’re really excited because not...
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Safecast Hackathon – January 13-18, 2013
At Safecast, we have been talking about our distributed team(s) and how beneficial it is when we can get people in the same room to actually hack on things. Not just bring each other up to date on what...
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Tokyo Hackathon underway
We kicked off the first hackathon of 2013 today in Tokyo. In many ways today was a planning session for what the rest of the week will look like. We ran through the issues lists on several key...
View ArticleThe GeoSense Map Platform
Along with Tony DeVincenzi, MIT Media Lab student Samuel Luescher developed the GeoSense mapping platform to help solve many of the problems we were having visualizing our data set. Samuel recently...
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Tokyo Hackathon Roundup
Earlier this year we held what will hopefully be the first of many Safecast Hackathons. Since Safecast has such a fantastic team of volunteers working together, we thought it might be beneficial to...
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Safecast iOS App Updated
A massive update to the iOS app just went live in the app store. If you don’t have it already you can download it here. In addition to the full Safecast database, there are new map layers showing...
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Global Giving Matching Donations to Safecast! (again!)
Our friends at Global Giving did this last year and it was incredibly helpful for us, so they’ve decided to do it again. From March 1st to March 15th they will be matching donations 100%, and on March...
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Air Prototype Show & Tell
Last night at the weekly Crash Space meeting, Naim showed off the current, working, Safecast Air prototype during show & tell, as well as an example of a possible housing using plates. We’re...
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Safecast Air Force (drone program)
The above video is a hexacopter with an onboard bGeigie Nano taking radiation readings in flight and broadcasting live via wifi. It’s the result of the just finished week long Safecast hackathon that...
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Over 10,000,000 Data Points
So this just happened: Actually it happened last week, and we blew past it without even noticing which point rolled it over. Officially, to date, Safecast has collected and published over 10,000,000...
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bGeigie Workshop – Aizu
A few weeks ago we gathered in Aizu with a crew of Safecast volunteers to celebrate hitting 10 million datapoints though we actually had a productive goal for the weekend as well. We held what will...
View ArticleEthan Zuckerman Goes Safecasting (and gets kicked out by armed guards)
Ethan Zuckerman, director the Center for Civic Media at MIT and friend of Safecast posse everywhere, took a bGeigie Nano for a spin the other day with the intent of checking out some depreciated...
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