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.
This year’s phyphox summer workshop dates are fixed: with focus on
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).
Version 1.1.16 brings image support in experiment configurations to phyphox. There are a few more additions to the file format that you might put to good use.
The Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the OeAD – Agency for Education and Internationalisation has awarded to phyphox the “Gütesiegel Lern-Apps” (quality label for learning apps) at the EdTech Austria Summit in Salzburg last Tuesday. We are happy about the feedback from teachers and students on the corresponding phyphox page.
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.
Das I. Physikalische Institut A der RWTH Aachen möchte zum 1.8. für vier Jahre eine halbe Stelle A13 mit einer abgeordneten Lehrkraft (gerne in räumlicher Nähe) zur Unterstützung der fachdidaktischem (phyphox-)Lehre besetzen. Mehr auf STELLA, https://www.schulministerium.nrw.de/BiPo/Stella/online, „Sonstige Stellen und Tätigkeiten“…
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.
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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/.
We’ll be back at LEARNTEC, May 23 – 25. Visit us at technika‘s booth Q40, dmarena, our fantastic host. We will close the fair program on Thursday at 15:30 with “Explore the world with the sensors of your smartphone, tablet or microcontroller” at panel C of school@LEARNTEC.
