I tried to visualize the random data collected from a Geiger Counter turned hardware-random-number-generator by plotting random walks with two different constrains on a 2D lattice of points.  One walk was left to freely meander and the other was instructed to not backtrack on itself once it had taken a step (self-avoiding). As there are four … More Random Walks on a 2D Lattice

Can a Geiger counter do math? Indeed it can! Well it can at least be used to generate a stream of random binary which can be utilized in a Monte-Carlo method to perform the computation.  This was motivated by a desire to build a hardware random number generator and verify that the numbers generated by the … More Calculating the Value of Pi With a Geiger Counter