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Arduino Science Journal 4+
Think like a real scientist!
Arduino LLC
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The Arduino Science Journal (formerly Science Journal, an initiative by Google) is free and allows you to gather data about the world around you by harnessing the sensors in your smartphone as well as sensors connected to Arduino. The Science Journal transforms smartphones and tablets into science notebooks that encourage students to explore their world.
The Arduino Science Journal app is recommended for students from 10 to 18 years of age.
About Arduino Science Journal
With the Arduino Science Journal, you can learn interactively, conduct experiments and iterate on findings.
• Enhance your existing lesson plans: use the Science Journal with activities and assignments you have already prepared
• Classroom & home-school friendly: you don’t have to be in a classroom setting to start exploring. The Arduino Science Journal can be used to run experiments straight away, as long as you have your smartphone or tablet with you!
• Move learning outside: the use of mobile devices along with the types of experiments we offer encourage students to get out of their seats and open their eyes to the world around them through the power of science
• Science and data have no secrets: you can easily record your observations, store your data sensors in real-time and analyse them, just as a proper scientist!
• Connect the digital and the physical world from your pocket: go through a series of simple tutorials and start having fun with science
With built-in device sensors as well as external hardware, you can measure light, sound, movement, and much more. You can also compare results, and even set triggers.
Together with the external hardware, (not included with the app), students are enabled to conduct more complex experiments, and advance in their scientific studies. As long as the external sensors are compatible with a Bluetooth-connecting device such as a microcontroller, there is no end to what experiments the students can make. Some popular sensors that the app can work with are: light, conductivity, temperature, force, gas, heart rate, respiration, radiation, pressure, magnetism, and many more.
The app is classroom-friendly, since students can sign in on any device and access their experiments to continue exploring the world, wherever they are!
If you’re an educator with a Google Classroom account, you can also subscribe to the Teacher Plan, which allows you to integrate the app with Google Classroom and share this integration with your students. You can then create assignments, templates, and experiments in the app and import existing classes from Google Classroom.
Permissions notice:
• Bluetooth: needed to scan for Bluetooth sensor devices.
• Camera: needed to take pictures to document experiments and for the brightness sensor.
• Photo Library: needed to store pictures taken to document experiments and for adding existing photos from your library to experiments.
• Microphone: needed for sound intensity sensor.
• Push notifications: needed to inform you of recording status when backgrounding the app.
Benefits of using the Arduino Science Journal
• It’s free and simple to use
• Easy setup: download the app and start exploring with your phone’s built-in sensors
• Cross-platform support
• Portable: enhance your home learning or bring your device outside to study the world around you
• Fully compatible with Arduino hardware: keep experimenting with the Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab, as well as the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense board
• Google Drive integration, as well as local download
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Terms and Conditions: https://www.arduino.cc/en/sj-terms-conditions
Privacy Policy: https://www.arduino.cc/en/privacy-policy
Children's Privacy Policy: https://www.arduino.cc/en/privacy-policy/children-privacy-policy
What’s New
Version 6.4.0
What's new:
- This update contains infrastructure improvements and fixes related to Collecting experiments & Barometer sensor readings
Bug Fixes:
- This release addresses issues when there are no experiments to collect and the App Crashes when you click on "Collect All" button
- Added fitness and motion user privacy permissions for Barometer readings
Ratings and Reviews
More export options
Thanks to Arduino team keep this great app going. Iblikebtjebuodayed looks of the UI and integration with apple iCloud file transfer. Could the team add CSV file export? It currently has two options: PDF and science journal. Both of existing former are not data analysis friendly. Much thanks!
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the marvellous review! We are going to include additional features, and we'll make sure to add this to our backlog for future development.
Thanks!
Awful
The worst physics app ever, great effort(not really) in making this app but awful execution, very complex, also it didn’t work when I needed it to. I walked down 4 flights of stairs by myself and tried to gain a signal in the middle of a parking lot looking like a fool just to get no signal. I really hope you guys reimburse me for my wasted time, my group almost publicly lynched me after I came back inside the lab with no data. Thanks again for a lot of wasted time and a not so fun experience with this dumb app! BOOOOOOOOO🤡
Developer Response ,
Dear user, we are sorry to hear that you are unsatisfied with the app, and we are also sorry that you lost all data.
In order to collect data for further analysis you will have to actively press the record button as shown in the tutorial guide available here 👉 https://science-journal.arduino.cc/sj/module/getting-started-1/lesson/setting-up-experiments. Another reason why your data may be lost is because the device didn't have enough storage to save the data recorded. We suggest that next time you double-check with your group the instructions on how to properly run an experiment, and make a data collection test to make sure that your device is working. If you require further assistance with the app or support please send us an email at [email protected].
The app doesn't require any connectivity to collect data from the phone. The data stream is collected using the data coming from your sensors.
We would love to hear back from you and see any feedback you may have. We are really looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Incredible
I wish I had known about this years ago. As an engineer I’ve been looking for ways to use my phone as a measurement instrument and this is it!
Get it and contribute to Arduino!
App Privacy
The developer, Arduino LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Arduino LLC
- Size
- 49.5 MB
- Kategorie
- Bildung
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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Englisch
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 Arduino LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Teacher Monthly Plan $7.99
- Yearly Teacher Plan $63.99