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Re: [Phys-l] Apps for iPhone



Hi

A colleague and I have been tinkering with this (data collection with cell phones) for a while. Here are some links to our papers and our acceleration app. Hopefully we will soon have a paper ready that shows how to use an iphone jack to connect an external thermistor circuit and light sensor circuit to an app we are writing.

R. Wisman, K. Forinash; 'Mobile Science', Ubiquitous Learning; An International Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2011).

online: http://ijq.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.186/prod.102 (offline I can send you a pdf)


Our acceleration app is at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobile-science-acceleration/id389821809?mt=8


R. Wisman, K. Forinash; 'Science in Your Pocket' in the International Journal of Hands on Science, published on the web after peer review:
http://homepages.ius.edu/kforinas/K/DataCollect/CellPhone/ijhsci_p7_wisman_p1_online.pdf

R. Wisman, K. Forinash: 'Cell Phone Physics'. Talk at the Annual meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, 2/14/09: http://homepages.ius.edu/kforinas/K/DataCollect/CellPhone/CellPhonePhysics.html

If you are interested in simulations the last issue of The Physics Teacher had a paper about that.

kyle

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Today's Topics:

1. Apps for iPhone (Derek Chirnside)
2. Re: Apps for iPhone (John Denker)
3. Re: Apps for iPhone (brian whatcott)
4. Re: Apps for iPhone (Bruce McKay)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:52:27 +1200
From: Derek Chirnside<derek.chirnside@gmail.com>
Subject: [Phys-l] Apps for iPhone
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My first post here since 1999. Just rejoined the list after a small
digression into other fields. The world has changed in the meantime.

Does anyone know of any projects on using an iPhone as a simple datalogger?
eg a timer (simple break a light beam to start, break a light beam to stop)
- or even recording a lot of time intervals. Or a counter.
I'm assuming the OS inside is able to do this, I'm just not sure how easy it
is.

I did a quick search: but most references in the list were "Sent from my
iPhone"

-Derek


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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:57:34 -0700
From: John Denker<jsd@av8n.com>
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On 06/01/2011 06:52 PM, Derek Chirnside wrote:
Does anyone know of any projects on using an iPhone as a simple datalogger?
Such things do exist.

I did a quick search: but most references in the list were "Sent from my
iPhone"
You need to search for "iphone app" in quotes:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22iphone+app%22+physics+data


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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:01:16 -0500
From: brian whatcott<betwys1@sbcglobal.net>
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On 6/1/2011 8:52 PM, Derek Chirnside wrote:
My first post here since 1999. Just rejoined the list after a small
digression into other fields. The world has changed in the meantime.

Does anyone know of any projects on using an iPhone as a simple datalogger?
eg a timer (simple break a light beam to start, break a light beam to stop)
- or even recording a lot of time intervals. Or a counter.
I'm assuming the OS inside is able to do this, I'm just not sure how easy it
is.

I did a quick search: but most references in the list were "Sent from my
iPhone"

-Derek
A fellow I worked with showed me a stunt app on his iPhone: put your
finger against
(one of the ) lenses and point it towards the Sun, he said.

The app displayed my pulse rate - which is apparently helpful to folks
who want to
set their resting pulse rate down by graduated exercise.

A few days later I showed him the stunt app on my dedicated device: a
pulse oximeter:
%oxygen saturation and pulse rate. This is the device that goes for $25
on up, and has
an interesting operating principle: Two LEDS shine through the finger
nail: one is
red the other infra red:
the spectral sensitivity differs as between arterial and venous blood.
To sharpen
the match to O2 saturation,
readings are taken at the systole and diastole, and the diastolic
reading is subtracted
from the systolic reading to subtract common mode artifacts from the
systolic,
arterial oxygen rich reading.

Brian W


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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 18:18:44 +1000
From: Bruce McKay<brumac@bigpond.net.au>
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At 1:52 PM +1200 2/6/11, Derek Chirnside wrote:
My first post here since 1999. Just rejoined the list after a small
digression into other fields. The world has changed in the meantime.
Derek,
If I remember correctly you were in Christchurch. If you are still
there, I hope you did not suffer anything nasty from the earthquake.
(I left University of Canterbury in 1974.)


Does anyone know of any projects on using an iPhone as a simple datalogger?
eg a timer (simple break a light beam to start, break a light beam to stop)
- or even recording a lot of time intervals. Or a counter.
I'm assuming the OS inside is able to do this, I'm just not sure how easy it
is.
Sparkvue is a free app from Pasco. It will graph x, y, z and
resultant acceleration from the sensors in the iPhone. If you want to
go a step further, get the Pasco Air-Link, plug in a PasPort sensor,
pair with your iPhone (bluetooth) and you can record data directly to
the iPhone. Not cheap but works well (and we already have a good
range of sensors). It works even better on my new iPad2!
Not quite what you were asking for but well worth looking at.

Bruce McKay
St. Ignatius' College,
Riverview,
Sydney,
Australia



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