True Random Numbers with a C64 and Radiation
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Today we will create a True Random Number Generator using a #commodore #c64 and #radioactive isotopes and #geiger counter to generate those numbers.
You can also use this with #arduino or any computer that has counters.
code:
github.com/rdo...
You have way too much time on your hands, and I love it ! Keep up the original retro creations and thanks for sharing.
@@networkg Unfortunately I don’t have that much spare time. Hence you don’t see as many new videos. But what pops up is intended to be something weird or unique 😉 But it won’t all be retro computing, it basically anything that has to do with creation and engineering.
Nobody, not one single person.
This guy: "Ever seen a radioactive c64 cart?"
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Oh man this made me laugh! 😆 thank you so much for your comment and subscription. It means a lot that you took the time. Have a great day😃
@@CallousCoderyou as well 😁
This is really cool!
Danke Schon Wolfgang. Yeah this was a fun little project. Glad you liked the useless shenanigans 🤣I think the main useful takeaway is that you have /FLAG2 that you can trigger external interrupts with.
😂 As always, very interesting content for us nerds. Presented by the Randomactive man...eeehm..coder 😂 btw: your refurbished C64 "red-edition" Looks fantastic
Lol! Thanks so much Chris! I hope that this radiation gave me sexual super powers… but the ladies haven’t thrown themselves to my feet just yet 😜🤣
Yeah the red edition is really nice. I’m also chuffed about it. It’s not too red but still catchy.
Fun fact: NMIs ignores interrupt flag so no need to CLI :)
You are right, force of habit to always stop interrupts when setting them up.
T2 in the beginning 😂
@@MenCaveTV yup! You know your classics
Mr. Coder, of the category 'Radioactive Materials', can I get the Barium-133?
Thank you, Quartet!
Lol 🤣 I had you more for a polonium-210 😉
Doesn't this require a cat that is neither dead nor alive? And the paradox is if he is going to pee in the corner or in the litter box, IIRC. Growing up in Colorado we had radioactive samples all over the place.
In other news, I got the PicoRAM 6116 to work on my Multitech MPF-1B which isn't a MPF-1B but an E&L Instruments MT-80Z. Pretty cool!
You grew up in Colorado! Wow! I love Colorado. I didn’t know there was surface uranium there (I assume you are referring to). I know that to be in Utah. I drove from Denver to Utah (Moab) after my little brother flew back to New Orleans after our long weekend together in Colorado (such a great memory of him). I went to hunt for surface uranium in Moab but no success.
I watched some videos on the PicoRAM, that’s a cool little device. Was the MPF-1B a license product that E&L also produced it? It looks so similar?
I had some Great hacking fun on the MPF-1B in tech college. I wish we the PicoRAM back then. Because we had to write a laundry machine program. So we hand assembled it and over the course of those 4 lessons you had to retype the assembly in 🙄That grew and grew and you never did it error free.
Oh and the cat was inside of the case of the C64. I can’t say whether it was alive or dead when I put it in, but there may have been a reason why I painted the case red 🙄😜
You can try Americium from a smoke alarm.
No I can’t, americium is an alpha emitter and this detector doesn’t detect alphas.
I even tested it, I have Americium test source. But it counts the few weak x-rays very very slowly, because it is an alphas emitter.
If you have an alpha detector than americium is a nice hot source!
Btw This Chinese detector is a limp dick anyways 😂very insensitive with this tiny tube.
It would be nice to see the distribution of this generator
@@Tezla0 I didn’t do it for this one because it takes forever. I did it for another one I did 10 years ago. And the P value was 0.003 something. So very very good. But I can’t recall the amount of numbers I had. It’s been 10 years. I think some where around 500k if I need to guess.
Where did you buy that? I am colector but i cant find those sources. Could you please tell me?
The giger counter is the bad version of it and normaly it has the long GM tube but sellers are making prifits for changing them and listing them the same price i think.
And there is a open source firmware that has RNG integrated
@@user-wq2wy1wn4k yeah usually you’d expect a J321 tube. But for this job in did fine.
You google Spectrum Techniques Oak Ride Tennessee. That’s where these sources came from back in 2014 when I bought them.
@@CallousCoder Thank you so much.
m-make it with cobalt 60
That’s there too 🤣I show the other 3 sources next to Cs-137
@@CallousCoder Seriously? Just watched the whole video and yeah... must not be a very large amount of it. Co-60 is Drop and Run dangerous. I'm not normally one to be shy around radioactive isotopes, but that's one of the ones I'm very cautious about.
@@BerryTheBnnuy naah it’s indeed a small source, just 0.1uC test source.