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This contribution adds a further example to illustrate how to use the headphone port of a smartphone to receive data from an external circuit, in this case, a simple, adaptable homemade example for temperature measurement (Chap. 58) [1].
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An audio jack adaptor can be used if the iPhone or iPad does not have a headphone jack.
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For other examples, see Forinash, K. and Wisman, R. “Smartphones as portable oscilloscopes for physics labs,” Phys. Teach. 50, 242–243 (April 2012) and “Photogate timing with a smartphone,” Phys. Teach. 53, 234 (April 2015).
See, for example, John W. Snider and Joseph Priest, Electronics for Physics Experiments: Using the Apple II Computer/Book with Disk (Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1989).
The original app, “Mobile Science–Temperature,” is no longer available from the Apple App Store. Contact the author, Raymond Wisman, regarding implementation questions on using the headphone port for data measurement.
A list of sensors and how they function can be found at https://www.sensorland.com. Ready to run external thermometers with software are now commercially available, for example from Weber (https://ogy.de/ambienttemperatureprobe) and Thermodo (http://thermodo.com).
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Forinash, K., Wisman, R.F. (2022). Smartphones: Experiments with an External Thermistor Circuit. In: Kuhn, J., Vogt, P. (eds) Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94044-7_54
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