Category: Steve’s Stuff


  • CERN at Home II – More DIY Radiation Detectors

    What do you do when you’ve built a radiation detector? Why, you build another one, of course! I wrote a while ago about how my son and I had built a cheap electron (β-particle to you) detector using a low-cost design from CERN. Well, CERN actually have designs for two cheap detectors, the other one being an alpha…

  • CERN at Home : Building a Particle Detector

    (Originally posted in September 2020) What do you do when you’re stuck at home with a 16-year-old son during a pandemic lockdown? Well, the first answer is that you build a gaming PC. That was a good project with a lot of incentives to complete, but that also meant it was soon over. So, what…

  • Our Website Got Trashed. Twice.

    So, back in June, I got a message from Ionos (…who host this site, until the hosting contract next expires…)saying that some of the themes in my WordPress installation were a security risk. They weren’t. I keep an eye on them. Ionos then decided to rewrite all URLs for this site to redirect back to…