Lightning strikes are quite high energy events ... [Jay] decided to build a device of his very own, and was impressed at its detection performance. The device is a simple but effective design.
The team at the [LVL1 Hackerspace] put together a lightning detector of their own ... paired with a small telescopic antenna. Lightning strikes in the area induce an oscillation in the circuit ...
Meteosat-12's lightning detector has four telescopic cameras ... networks tend to detect mainly the cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, rather than the cloud-to-cloud, or intra-cloud lightning ...