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 address and of course his social media channels.

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! ⛱️

• 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/

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.

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

Registration will open soon.

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/

• New camera experiments: luminance, hue/saturation/value, brightness stopwatch, color stopwatch, brightness spectrum (this one soon on Android)
• Several new UI elements in experiment files like sliders, dropdowns and toggles (soon on Android).
• Many improvements and fixes

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

Get Android and iOS test version: https://phyphox.org/download/

🧑‍🔧 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.

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.