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A project log for Nuclear Random Number Generator

A self-contained, true random number generator which uses radioactive decay as an entropy source.

mdasilvaM.daSilva 03/29/2015 at 20:100 Comments

All right, the PCB is done, the holes drilled, and the components soldered in place. After some testing, I plugged the thing in a 5V supply, and Tada! Got HV on the Geiger input!

I quickly programmed a small sketch that does the math and counts the pulses in the Arduino Leonard. The binairy data is sent through the serial port, and arrives on my computer. I'll post the sketch later on.

For now, it seems that the numbers are random, but I'll need to analyse them more thoroughly...

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