NRNG

NRNG: Nuclear Random Number Generator

Generates truly random Numbers using radioactive decay. Details Coming Soon!

Hardware

• Geiger Counter with USB Interface
• 5uCi Cs-137)

Software

• Arduino IDE
• MAD_Burster_Arduino.pde
• Processing
• MAD_Burster_Processing.pde
• MySQL

Tools

• MacBook
• USB Cable

Methodology

1. Mechanical Asembly
   1. Aluminum Box, sugru
2. Electrical Interface
   1. USB
3. Test Randomness
4. Implement Linux Kernel Interface

Setup

• Create a housing for your geiger counter and source. Try sugru
• Connect geiger counter to computer.
• setup a database, username and password.

CREATE DATABASE `gcounter` ;
GRANT USAGE ON gcounter. * TO 'gcounter'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '***';

• setup a database table:

CREATE TABLE `gcounter`.`counts` (
`unit_id` VARCHAR( 255 ) NULL DEFAULT NULL ,
`timestamp` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ,
`msec` FLOAT NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( `msec` ) ,
INDEX ( `unit_id` , `timestamp` )
) ENGINE = MYISAM ;

See Also

• The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements (Stanford Report, 2010)
• Xor.c