Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Meara who shares the following article from the excellent SolderSmoke Podcast blog: 2014 “Off the Shelf” Regen Comes Off the Shelf (Two Videos) Walter KA4KXX spotted an error in the schematic of my 2014 “Off the Shelf” regen receiver: The source resistor on the MPF-102 should be 2200 ohms, not 2.7 […]

 Bill Meara over at Soldersmoke built a cloud chamber particle detector!

He has all the details on the Soldersmoke blog, including the plans for the detector and a few videos of particle traces.

Between the chamber and the book the plan came from, it all put me in mind of the time Ruidoso High School had not one, not two, but three particle accelerator science fair projects occupying the high school lab. Including a Tesla Coil version, a cyclotron, and one of these highlighted in the plan book Bill links above:

 (The cyclotron was mine.)