Linux, Cosmic Rays and Art Installations
Channel: LinuxConfAu 2018 - Sydney, Australia
Date: 2018-01-24

Paul Schulz

http://lca2018.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/93/

A distributed cosmic ray detector was built and installed as part of the Splash Adelaide 2017 Winter Festival. Situated on the banks of the Torrens River in Adelaide, the 16 individual sensors would
flash and emit sounds as muons were detected from cosmic ray showers in the atmosphere.

In this talk we will describe the project and the software written to run on the Raspberry Pi Zero
computer in each detector.

The Raspberry Pi Zero runs Raspbian Linux and uses the WiringPi library to interface with signals
received from the detector hardware. Ansible is used deploy updates to the wirelessly networked array.

Code to run your own sensor is available on GitHub: https://github.com/PaulSchulz/cosmic-array.git

This talk was given at Linux.conf.au 2018 (LCA2018) which was held on 22-26 January 2018 in Sydney Australia.

linux.conf.au is a conference about the Linux operating system, and all aspects of the thriving ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run since 1999, in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year, by a team of local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. For more information on the conference see https://linux.conf.au/

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