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The MuonPi Cosmic Detector Project Wiki

The MuonPi Project is a RaspberryPi-based system using an inexpensive plastic scintillator + SiPM photo sensor to detect muons from cosmic air showers with a time stamping accuracy of several tens of nanoseconds utilizing the u-blox NEO-M8N GNSS module's "timemark" feature.

Learn about cosmic radiation

• Get started with Cosmic Rays
• "Kosmische Strahlung" Podcast (in german) on weltderphysik.de
• "Der kosmischen Strahlung auf der Spur" article (in german) on weltderphysik.de
• "Kosmische Teilchen mit extragalaktischem Ursprung" article (in german) on weltderphysik.de

Learn about the detectors

• Basics of Scintillators
• Find out about Silicon photomultipliers

The Software

About this Wiki

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