Following the recent disaster in Japan, the Tokyo Hackerspace --an open community space where hackers get together to play with hardware (among other things)--channeled its hive mind not into its usual playing with lasers and forgetting to shower, but rather into helping the country recover from earthquake and nuclear-related woes. The Tokyo Hackerspace's most high-profile project is its NETRAD geiger shield, an open-source geiger counter shield that detects local radiation levels. Eventually, the hackerspace hopes to expand its sensor network to the Fukushima region
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