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Boost your Smartphone with Arduino
Add sensors to your smartphone to measure acceleration, angular velocity, temperature, light intensity, magnetic field, or voltage? It’s possible for less than 40 euros by utilizing phyphox BLE! Read more from our friends Physics Reimagined at the Université Paris-Saclay.
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Version 1.1.9: Acoustic Signals in Timed Run
Version 1.1.9 has been released featuring an improved and new acoustic countdown for timed run experiments. Apart from that, there have been some bug fixes all over the app, see https://phyphox.org/wiki/index.php/Version_history#1.1.9.
“Donation Race”
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As part of “Wirkung hoch 100” we learned a lot about fundraising. A corresponding first campaign will be supported by the Stifterverband in a so-called donation race.
From April 14 to May 14, 2021, we will receive an additional 50 cents for every euro donated to us (maximum 3000€). There will be a supplemental amount for the most successful five (of 9) participating initiatives.
Can you contribute financially? Donations allow us to create new features and learning and teaching opportunities as well as putting our project on a more solid base.
betterplace.org, Germany’s largest donation platform, is charitable and non-profit.
Smartstones
Two teams compete with their smartphones in the the days of the cavemen! A ready-to-play game by La Physique Autrement, from 2 to 10 players, which will show you that your smartphones are much more than you think!
Credits to Agathe Lacombe and Iris Laumer in collaboration with the team “Physics Reimagined” (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS)
SmartPhysicsLab
Over the last few months there has been work behind the scenes on SmartPhysicsLab, an online portal to support physics practicals and a community working to innovate in that space. Inspired by Pietro Cicuta and Giovanni Organtini, Frédéric Bouquet, Danny Caballero, Martín Monteiro, Michael Schatz, and the phyphox team joined the editorial board.
The platform wants to encourage a spirit of hands-on experimentation, ideally with affordable approaches. Some of the experiences might be appropriate even in the current context of social distancing and home teaching, despite the project pursues a broader, long-term vision. The remit of the initiative, for now, extends from the final years of high school to the first few years of a science, engineering or physics focused degree.
Anyone is welcome to explore the public website, https://www.smartphysicslab.org/, and follow the twitter feed @smartphysicslab. As an instructor, you are encouraged to sign up to the community by filling out the “Get Involved” form there. The materials already on the site are intended as examples, to stimulate the community to share practical experiments that they have found successful.
The initiative is not currently funded, and is being run on a voluntary basis. You are free to use, modify, translate in other languages and redistribute the material under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). We’d like over time to support multiple languages, and if you are willing to translate existing material that is very welcome.
Hibernation
We are gradually going into hibernation. In the first week of January we start catching up what we missed. Happy restful Holidays… 😊🎄🧘💤
Version 1.1.7: MQTT Support
Version 1.1.7 has been released including MQTT support, experiment sharing within the menu, and multiple bugfixes, see http://phyphox.org/wiki/index.php/Version_history#1.1.7.
Falling Walls 2020 Winner
Sebastian is a Falling Walls Winner in the category Digital Education 2020. Tune into the Q&A and Community Session on Saturday at 3:15pm after the winners session. Find his nomination at falling-walls.com/remote2020/finalists/breaking-the-wall-to-widely-available-data-acquisition-in-science-education/.