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Sebastian is leading a “Technology and Labs” session at ICPE 2022 on 6 December at 04:45 UTC with the keynote “A world of smartphone experiments with the app phyphox”. It is followed by Marina Milner Bolotin’s “Phyphox smartphone labs in physics education: Breaking the vicious circle of student disengagement”.

Sebastian will cover experimentation with device sensors, DIY sensors based on the phyphoxBLE Arduino IDE as well as MicroPython library, and collaborative experiments for large audiences. All these are already routinely applied at RWTH Aachen University in physics education and open to the more than 1.5 million installations on (apparently) iPads by educational institutions worldwide* as part of the Volume Purchase Program (VPP) – and even more individual installations.

The International Conference on Physics Education (ICPE) 2022 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) is carried out online on 5–9 December. The regular registration fee is A$60 and registrations are open. Details: ICPE-Website

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* more than 0.9 million in Germany

Enjoy our institute’s physics fair and Sebastian’s talk “Explore the world with your smartphone’s sensors” at the “5 to 12” RWTH science night.

It takes place on 11 November from 7pm to midnight at CARL Aachen, Sebastian’s talk is 8.45pm in H04.

The next phyphox version 1.1.12 will support automagically the puck.js. For the moment, you could find a reference implementation in our wiki.

The most amazing thing is that we can already embed the JS code for the puck.js in our file format and pretty much share any functionality without changing anything in phyphox. We should have tried this years ago.

Let us know if you need any support or if you created something cool with this.

The just released version 1.1.11 adds 3D depth sensors support to the previously available multiple smartphone sensors. Those augment the pixels of cameras with spatial depth information for better photos and augmented reality applications. The technology is known as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), time of flight (ToF) and true depth. The associated distance information opens up entirely new possibilities for physics experiments, but also for mathematics. In this context, phyphox is the first app in the education sector that equally utilizes front cameras with Face ID for this purpose, which are included in almost all current iPhones, for instance.

Exactly 6 years ago today, on September 12, 2016, phyphox was released in both major stores for Android and iOS. Originally intended for university lectures, using a salad spinner to analyze circular motion or determining the speed of sound with just two smartphones quickly found its way to schools as well – and around the world. This summer, we exceeded four million installations, more than one million of which as part of volume packages at schools.

We are aestanating. Waking and catching up starts in August… 💤

In the meantime you could read our article in the Alumni-Magazin Nr. 72 or sign up for the Aachener phyphox-Sommerfortbildung on 16 September.

Some announcement for April Fools’ Day: there oughta be another device family running phyphox… 🎮👦🧑‍🔬

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This cannot be, can it? Sebastian has at least pushed some limits, see (technical) details at http://there.oughta.be/gta5-for-the-game-boy and references therein…