The Transglobal Car Expedition has reached the North Pole, today April 6th 2024 at approximately 23h00 Geneva time. The CosmicPi team extends its warmest congratulations to Transglobal for this achievement. Well done team Transglobal! Iconic moment. And of course, that means two CosmicPi units reached the North Pole… Check out the longitude and latitude on […]
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Jan 9 The launch event for the Transglobal Car Expedition was hosted on 9th January 2024 at the Explorers Club New York and was a big success. Check out the press release. The journey started today, 10th January 2024, with Erebus, a CosmicPi unit, on board one of the expedition trucks! Team CosmicPi is proud
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Dec 29 With the CosmicPi hardware installed in a portable rugged case, read all about it in this post… it was necessary to carry out tests under similar conditions to those that these devices will experience during the Transglobal Car Expedition. James’s freezer double-up as a sub-zero°C environmental chamber for these tests. Four CosmicPi units
Dec 22 Four units from a previous production run of CosmicPi units were re-fitted into transportable rugged cases for the Transglobal Car Expedition. Watch James talk through what is happening with the stack of four CosmicPi units for Transglobal in the video below. As can be seen in the video above, not all CosmicPi units
The idea of fitting CosmicPi hardware into a portable rugged case had been floated a while ago, so the opportunity presented by the Transglobal Car Expedition was an excellent boost to get the refit done. Watch James talk through the re-packaging of CosmicPi hardware into the new splashproof case in the video below.Play The splashproof
by James Devine Presenting our dashboard. Apart from avoiding Covid-19 as best as we can, it’s been time to finally get our database and dashboard online! The new dashboard, shipping on all 2021 units. If you already have a cosmic pi it can be upgraded! We’ve revised the software that runs on the Cosmic Pi
by James Devine How to assemble a Cosmic Pi. We have just released an assembly guide for the V1.5 unit. This is designed to help anyone who has a unit that got broken during transport, and also to show those thinking about building their own how to do it! The document is available via this
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April 15, 2015 How CosmicPi was born By James Devine The Cosmic Pi project was born out at The Port Hackathon, held at CERN in late 2014. The stealthily titled team X1 set their sights on the development of a low cost (<500 USD) cosmic ray detector, to be released under an open source license,
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