In September phyphox will celebrate its 10th anniversary. And we will do so in style with three different events in Aachen targeting three different user groups:

A public experiment show (in German) for anyone who is interested in phyphox. The show will be moderated by Nicolas Wöhrl und Reinhard Remfort from the podcast “Methodisch Inkorrekt”. More info

An international conference on smartphone experiments in STEM education with several invited speakers, hands-on experiments, poster presentations and of course news from the phyphox team. More info

Our yearly teacher training (in German) with workshops for different experience levels. Get started with first simple experiments, learn how to modify phyphox with the editor or mix DIY Arduino projects with phyphox. More info

We are thrilled to receive the RWTH Aachen Special Teaching Award! For the phyphox team, this honor is a wonderful recognition of our work and of the many years of collaborative development behind the project. It is especially motivating to see innovative teaching approaches and open digital tools being valued so highly in academic education. The recognition by the Rectorate of the impact of phyphox means a lot to us and encourages us to continue improving and expanding the project. You can find more details in the official RWTH article “How fast does the roller coaster accelerate? Your smartphone knows.”

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We have put together a huge package of news for the coming school year. But first, here’s an event announcement…

Digital education with phyphox 2025

This year, our summer training will take place in cooperation with the Institute for Didactics of Physics at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. The program is divided into two main topics with a focus on universities on Thursday afternoon and a focus on schools on Friday with plenty of time to look at everything. [Details and registration (in German)]

OK Camera

The new phyphox version 1.2.0 supports the camera(s) for the first time. There are also new UI elements and much (MUCH!) more. On iOS the “Roll” experiment is back in the menu and on Android you can now use the “weird” sensors from the device info in your own experiments [Full list of changes]

Web Editor

Create your own menu entries or customise the default experiments to suit your needs? The phyphox web editor is updated to support the app version 1.2.0. There are some substantial changes under the hood. Most of the teething problems should be eliminated now. Please report back if you spot something strange.

phyphoxBLE

The Arduino library now also works with single-core microcontrollers. Official support for the MKR 1010 WiFi, for which there is currently only a patch in our forum, will be added soon (update: on 11 August).

phyphox:kit

For the use of smartphone experiments in lower secondary education, there is the so-called phyphox:kit, a complete collection of materials for up to 16 setups with handouts and worksheets (in German, yet untranslated).

Quantum year and phyphox

The smartphone camera can be used to determine Planck’s constant, one of the fundamental constants of nature, (DIY project) and to demonstrate the quantum cryptography BB84 protocol.

One More Thing

Many details of the above can be found in our new material pool. Feel free to send us your additions.

Enjoy your (final days of the) summer break! ⛱️

Our summer training will take place in Frankfurt this year, again immediately after the GDCP.

• University focus: Sep 11 (half day)
• School focus: Sep 12 (full or half day possible)

Registration for our summer training course is now open. Places are limited, so sign up while there are still spots available. 😁

https://phyphox.org/lehre2025/

Create your own menu entries or customise the default experiments to suit your needs? The phyphox web editor has been updated to support the app version 1.2.0.

There are some substantial changes under the hood. Most of the teething problems should be eliminated now. Please report back if you spot something weird.

Our summer training will take place in Frankfurt this year, again immediately after the GDCP.

• University focus: Sep 11 (half day)
• School focus: Sep 12 (full or half day possible)

Registration will open soon.

Sebastian has pushed out new updates to the upcoming 1.2.0 version and they look like potential release candidates.

Expect new camera features, such as luminance measurements, HSV measurement, camera-based stopwatches etc.

• New camera experiments: luminance, hue/saturation/value, brightness stopwatch, color stopwatch, brightness spectrum
• Several new UI elements in experiment files like sliders, dropdowns and toggles, dynamic button labels
• Simple experiments now support attitude and gravity
• Location/GPS experiment features a tab with degrees, minutes, and seconds coordinate format
• file format allows for different waveform variants in tone output
• Many (MANY) improvements and fixes

See https://phyphox.org/wiki/index.php/Versi…tory#1.2.0 for details.

Get the Android and iOS test versions and try to break it: https://phyphox.org/download/

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.