Smartphones are useful for science, here’s how

Smartphones are useful for science, here’s how

Gyroscope, accelerometer, barometer, magnetic field sensor, brightness sensor, proximity sensor… Smartphone chips are of interest to scientists for low-cost experiments and measurements. In the hangar of the Saint-Cyr-l’École wind tunnel (Yvelines), around sixty smartphones are suspended as if on a clothesline. When the giant fans start up, this unusual garland begins to wave in the … Read more