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title: "DIY Muon Telescope: Homemade Innovation for Secondary Cosmic Ray Detection with Synchronized Data Acquisition"
description: This project centers on a DIY telescope designed to detect muons from secondary cosmic rays.
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# [DIY Muon Telescope: Homemade Innovation for Secondary Cosmic Ray Detection with Synchronized Data Acquisition](https://content.redpitaya.com/blog/diy-muon-telescope-rp)

 Written by [Red Pitaya Technical Editorial Team](https://content.redpitaya.com/blog/author/red-pitaya-technical-editorial-team) | Apr 9, 2024 8:37:28 AM

This project centers on a DIY telescope designed to detect muons from secondary cosmic rays. It features two plastic scintillator tiles with optical fibers linked to silicon photomultipliers, mounted on a servomechanism for orientation adjustments and triggering a gaseous detector. The electronics consist of slow control components for SiPM biasing and timestamping using a CERN Cosmic Pi main board with GPS, Raspberry Pi 0, and microcontroller-based boards. Fast control electronics involve a Red Pitaya board for data acquisition, signal conditioning, and a broadband amplifier. A homemade gaseous detector with a photodiode readout is synchronized with the scintillator readout through connections to an Arduino Due and the Red Pitaya board, facilitating simultaneous data acquisition.

Find the whole project [here.](https://github.com/valeriopagliarino/muCosmic/tree/main)

 

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