Blockly-ed Editor

Ever wanted to design your own phyphox experiments (those menu entries)? We get you started with our new blockly-ed editor.

🧑‍🔧 It should be at the public-test quality that you expect from us. We are looking forward to your feedback.

By the way, there is roughly a week left to register to our summer workshop in Bochum/Germany on September 13 (and 12: with university focus). That’s the best place to try it out.

Camera support on Android

The new public beta of phyphox on Android includes support for smart device cameras. There is a first set of experiments that utilise it: “Brightness (Luminance)”, “Color (Hue Saturation Value)”, and two camera stopwatches for brightness and colour.

All smartphone scientists being fearless and/or keen to experiment: try it, break it, and report back what you notice in our forums or by mail.

Summer Workshop

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This year’s phyphox summer workshop dates are fixed: with focus on

  • University, on September 12, 3 – 6:30 p.m,
  • School, on September 13, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

The venue will be in Bochum, as the GDCP annual conference is taking place there in the same week.

Registration is open, more at https://phyphox.org/lehre2024 (in German).

Barometer on Apple devices

The iOS and iPadOS versions 17.4 have introduced a bug that requires a “Motion and Fitness” permission. The new phyphox version 1.1.14 triggers a corresponding dialog. The permission can be manually en- and disabled in Settings > Privacy > Motion and Fitness then.

didacta 2024 in Cologne

The largest trade fair for the education industry in Europe “didacta” opens its doors from February 20 to 24 from 9 am to 6 pm daily. Together with the initiative to promote young STEM teachers („MINT-Lehrkräfte-Nachwuchsförderung“, MILeNa), phyphox will be present in Hall 6 at Stand E081, once again as a so-called special exhibit.

There will be short hands-on sessions for every even hour, including the new phyphox:tools at 12 noon and the latest version of the upcoming new editor at 2 pm. All our dates at didacta can be found in the event search.

Aachen phyphox summer training

On September 8, our Aachen phyphox summer training (in German) will be held again, where the whole phyphox team will present experiments and features around phyphox with talks and workshops. We have some new stuff in the program like a blockly-based experiment editor and more about (our own) wireless sensors.

This year we will return to the lecture hall center “C.A.R.L.” in central Aachen directly at the train station “Aachen West”. Participation is free of charge and possible for half or full day.

Further information and registration at https://phyphox.org/lehre2023/.