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Turns your phone into a sonar to either measure distances or determine the speed of sound.

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Using the acoustic stopwatch you can determine the speed of sound with two phones and a tape measure.

  • External experiment
  • Microphone

Decode images that are encoded as dual-tone sequences. Originally, this was published as a christmas special. More details here.