{"title":"A Better DIY Seismometer: This Design is Compact But Still Detects Faraway Earthquakes","authors":"David Schneider","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10824232","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In September of 2023, I wrote in these pages about using a Raspberry Pi-based seismometer—a Raspberry Shake—to record earthquakes. But as time went by, I found the results disappointing. In retrospect, I realize that my creation was struggling to overcome a fundamental hurdle.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 1","pages":"16-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Spectrum","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10824232/","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In September of 2023, I wrote in these pages about using a Raspberry Pi-based seismometer—a Raspberry Shake—to record earthquakes. But as time went by, I found the results disappointing. In retrospect, I realize that my creation was struggling to overcome a fundamental hurdle.
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