Assembly Guide

[WORK IN PROGRESS] This is a guide on how to populate our MuonPi-PCB, using the construction kit. You can get a kit yourself by contacting us.

The Kit

The Kit contains all the parts you need to setup your RaspberryPi as a cosmic ray detector in the comfort of your home.

Contents of the Kit are:

• The plastic scintillator (generously provided by Eljen Technology)
• The bare printed circuit board (Muonpi board)
• GNSS antenna
• All components to mount on the PCB
• Bill of materials

Tools

The tools you need to populate the PCB with the SMD components include:

• a soldering iron
• solder
• (metal) tweezers
• flux
• solder wick
• solder fume extractor
• scalpel/scissors