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PocketLab Air Getting Started Guide
On this page, you'll find step-by-step instructions for using PocketLab Air, in-depth answers to many common PocketLab Air questions, and a 15-minute webinar-style Getting Started video covering everything from connecting PocketLab Air to calibrating the CO2 sensor. If you have additional questions, feedback, or other comments, send us an email at [email protected].
PocketLab Air Getting Started Video
Phyphox with Bluetooth Now Available for iOS/Android Devices
The Phyphox App
You might ask "Under what circumstances would someone want to use the Phyphox app instead of the PocketLab app?"
TurboTrack Dynamics Cart for Physics
We've turbocharged some of the most classic (boring?) physics experiments with the brand new PocketLab TurboTrack. It's a fast, fun, physics playground for hands-on science.
Air Quality Matters!
Globally, seven million premature deaths each year result from air pollution (WHO, 2012). Recent air quality events such as the forest fires in Western North America and the extreme smog conditions in China emphasizes that air pollution is an important current issue for individuals globally. Your neighbour to the north, Canada, has recently had widespread forest fires throughout the west coast as well as serious air pollution events due to industry.
State of Global Air: A Report on Air Quality Parameters and their Health Effects
The State of Global Air report is an annually updated peer-reviewed document providing the most up to date information possible on global air quality and its health effects. The report includes a discussion of how air quality is measured, the health effects of the parameters, and analysis of the data in terms of health risk and sociodemographics. This article serves to provide an overview of their work and call attention to some of their interactive resources to view the data.
Whats in the Air at Maker Faire?
What's in the Air at Maker Faire?
What does the sizzle of a corn dog and the combustion of a giant flame car have in common? Well, they both give off a lot of particulate matter for starters. How do we know? Because we went to Maker Faire and we brought our PocketLab Air…and we bought some corn dogs….and they were delicious.
It's Simple. PocketLab and Harmonic Motion Just Go Together
Creative Ways to make Simple Waves
PocketLab Voyager and PocketLab One are great tools for investigating simple harmonic motion. There are literally dozens of ways to create pendulums or other 2nd order mechanical systems to explore the properties of mechanical waves. Check out just a few of the many examples below.
How to teach NGSS MS-PS1-4: Particle motion and states of matter
Using barometric pressure to teach about particle motion and states of matter
In a few simple experiments, temperature can be related to the the kinetic energy of particles inside a substance, or the the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another through kinetic energy in order to teach NGSS MS-PS1-4. In doing these experiments, students can gain an understanding of how particle motion is affected when thermal energy is added or removed. This can also be related to the changes of state of a substance as a solid, liquid, or gas.
PocketLab at the Ed Games Expo: Fourth Graders Can Be Engineers Too!
Fourth grade students, high schoolers, and even the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education were putting on their engineering hats to investigate highway safety with PocketLab, last month.
PocketLab Voyager Collects Light Intensity Data on Jan 20-21, 2019 Total Lunar Eclipse
PocketLab Voyager Total Lunar Eclipse Light Intensity Data
I was fortunate enough to have a perfectly clear sky in DeKalb, Illinois to capture light intensity data for the January 20-21, 2019 total lunar eclipse. This opportunity to collect light intensity data of the eclipse using PocketLab Voyager was a must do! See Figure 1.