Come and visit us at #didacta2026 in cologne! Hall 6.1 booth C70.

Unfortunately, no. This is not the actual setups by the students, which was a bit more improvised as they made it as part of a open lab course project. They presented their results as a printed poster and the setup in the video is just our reproduction to share the idea.

Our students came up with a creative solution to measure a force with a smartphone and phyphox.

Photo of the award ceremony. Five people stand in front of a stage with second from the right holding a document. The people in the photo are from left to right: Heidrun Heinke, Dominik Dorsel, Christoph Stampfer, Sebastian Staacks and Joost-Pieter Katoen. The first four are the awardees representing the phyphox team, the latter is the RWTH's Vice-Rector for Teaching and Learning.

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.

www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/brvsvb...

People lying on floor and on chairs

Did I talk too much in the workshop? No, they are using the accelerometer in their phone and @phyphox.org to measure their heartbeat. Lying still with the phone on your chest gives very detailed data.

New @phyphox.org experiment dropped to www.smartphysicslab.org/resources.html to measure the distance to the Moon. Direct link: github.com/smartphysics....

Enjoy!

A level physics demo - dropping a magnet through a copper tube. This time with a force sensor data logger so we can measure the extra downward force in the copper tube as the magnet falls within. DIY Bluetooth sensor in 3d printed case that streams the data to @phyphox.org app. #iteachphysics

Photo of the parting present for Jens. A 3D printed base holds four items: A large phyphox logo made of wood, a medium 3D printed phyphox logo in organge and white and a small phyphox logo engraved into a block of clear acryllic. The forth item in the front is a black coated aluminium business card engraved in German: "Danke für 5 Jahre phyphox-Dienst" (Thanks for five years of phyphox service)

Today we say goodbye to Jens after handling our public outreach for more than 5 years. While we're sad to see him leave we are optimistic to see more chances to work together in the future.
You can still reach him through his phyphox email and of course his social media channels (@hcszt.d-64.social)

Calmly-eating-kebap meme: “smartphone physicist” is calmly eating, “AI madness” rioting in the background

Am Dienstag ist die Herbsttagung MNU Nordrhein an der Universität zu Köln. Ab 11:30 Uhr zeigt Marija ihr phyphox-Kit, ein Rundum-Sorglos-Paket für Smartphone-Experimente im NaWi/Physik-Unterricht an weiterführenden Schulen. 🧑‍🔬

Anmelden: extern.mnu.de/mitglieder/a...

#BlueLZ #MINTEdu #PhysikEdu

Visualisation of this method

… or Nº61: Call the building architect, and ask him.

That’s on me meme: Jake: “I’m a physicist” Jess: “Okay, then name 61 ways to measure the height of a building.” Jake: “With a smartphone?” Jess: (silently) “That's on me, I set the bar too low.”

The smartphone physics challenge, vulgarisation.fr/smartphone-p..., by @julien-bobroff.bsky.social, @organtin.bsky.social, and others:

The acoustic stopwatch might work here with a carefully tuned threshold. The “multi” tab runs continuously.

Calculations with the shuttling ball demonstration YouTube video by Physics with Simon Poliakoff

It was good to get A-level students doing some calculations with the shuttling ball demo yesterday:

#SciTeachUK
#ITeachPhysics

youtu.be/usP5YtWQh6c

In German, we tend to say [fyˈfɒks]: the first syllable as in “Physik”

#BlueLZ #MINTEdu #PhysikEdu

Resources Pool Jülich presentationphyphox newsletter (in English and German) Contribute Support phyphox, Contact: Jens Noritzsch <contact@phyphox.org> Kit: lower secondary experiments Contact: Marija Herdt <marija@p...

Our collection of resources, phyphox.org/pool-en/, might be worth a look. If there is anything you’d like to add or have changed, don’t hesitate to drop us a note. 🧑‍🔬

((… there is no “b”!))

(U.S. Englishians might prefer /ˈfɪfɑks/)

Drake hotline bling meme. First row (don't!): /ˈfʌɪfɒks/, second row (do!): /ˈfɪfɒks/

FAQ: How do you pronounce “phyphox”?

(Freitag sind schon so viele dabei, wie seit Beginn der Pandemie nicht mehr. Also vielleicht diesmal vielleicht wirklich.)

Digitale Bildung mit phyphox 2025 Workshop Schwerpunkt Hochschule:Donnerstag, 11. Sept., 15–18.30 UhrSeminarhaus (Campus Westend)Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Schwerpunkt Schule:Freitag, 12. Sept., 10–17 UhrInstitut für Didaktik der Ph...

Am Sonntag endet der (offizielle) Anmeldezeitraum für unsere zwei Tage „Digitale Bildung mit phyphox 2025“ in Frankfurt am Main:

Schwerpunkt Hochschule: Do, 11.9.
Schwerpunkt Schule: Fr, 12.9.

Anmelden – solange der Vorrat reicht: phyphox.org/de/lehre2025/

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Backyard Squirrel Maze 1.0- Ninja Warrior Course YouTube video by Mark Rober

… and www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZF... for squirrels (more to the end of the video).

((We should have tagged him: @manicule.bsky.social))

(No smartphones were harmed [yet] during the making of this experiment according to Michael S. Wheatland, thanks to some precautions 4/3)

The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies YouTube video by Veritasium

What does this have to do with VВладимир Александрович Джанибеков and a Russian state secret? Find out more – about all that – in the Veritasium video www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPf... 🚀 3/3

A smartphone is not all that different in shape from a skateboard, in Australia, they are willing to take risks, and so “The mobile phone as a free-rotation laboratory” was born, www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~wheat/paper... (for tl;dr, there is a video via the DOI link). 2/3

Why this trick should be IMPOSSIBLE ft. Rodney Mullen - Skateboarding Science YouTube video by Physics Girl

Everyone is up for an adventure? Physics Girl has a great video, www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFRP..., on “Skateboarding Science” and, in particular, on “The Impossible” trick. 1/3

Kompetenzen – Digitale Kompetenzen für das Lehramt in den Naturwissenschaften “DiKoLAN – Digitale Kompetenzen für das Lehramt in den Naturwissenschaften” von Sebastian Becker, Till Bruckermann, Alexander Finger, Johannes Huwer, Erik…

Smartphones (und Tablets) scheinen bei nahezu 100%iger Abdeckung dementsprechend ein PLE im Hinblick auf dikolan.de/kompetenzen#... zu sein, nicht wahr?

Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics The book has more than 70 physics experiments from iPhysicsLab in The Physics Teacher and helps physics teachers to incorporate digital devices in classes.

Die weltweite Bildungsforschung in Physik ist da seit mehr als zehn Jahren anderer Meinung: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Wir sind dabei: mit einem Workshop um 10:30 Uhr, Montag, 1. September, Eilenriedehalle, HCC Hannover, mobile.schule-Tagung – oder kommt und sagt „Hi“ … 🙋

#MINTEdu #PhysikEdu

9pm (?) is not that nighty… 😉