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Implement Radiation detector hardware

Open simon987 opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

The radiation detection hardware (Geiger counter ?) will give a Count per minute based on the distance from a Radioactive obstacle. Multiple radioactive obstacles close together will give a greater number.

simon987 avatar Mar 11 '18 00:03 simon987

More info on radiation and mesurments:

  • Geiger Mueller (GM) tube sensing element. are used in most Portable Hand Held Survey Detectors to locate radiation. They detect alpha, beta, X-rays and gamma radiation.
  • Becquerel is the strength of the source of radiation, cpm is the number of counts received by an instrument from that source.
  • Activity (quantity) is measured in Becquerel (also Curies in the U.S.). 1 Becquerel (Bq) = 1 disintegration per second (dps)
  • Normal background radiation levels vary at different locations, even in different areas of the same room
  • Alpha: ±5cm
  • Beta: 10-20 feet, penetrates paper
  • Gamma: 100+ feet, stops with tick concrete / lead

I'm not skilled enough to implement a realistic solution so what I'll do is that I will calculate the path in a straight line from the Cubot to the radioactive object, then use the object's getCounts(lenght of the path) and substract a set amount for each impassable object/tile in the path.

simon987 avatar Apr 02 '18 18:04 simon987