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