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PocketLab on Windows 10
Beta version of the PocketLab Web App available now
The PocketLab Web App is now available on Windows 10 devices as a beta version. The PocketLab Web App connects to PocketLab Voyager and Weather through a Chrome web browser. To connect your PocketLab Voyager or Weather follow the steps below.
PocketLab Air Office Data
Explore Earth's Systems and Outer Space with your PocketLab
Engaging NGSS Earth and Space Science Activities with PocketLab
Explore Earth's systems and discover other planets with these two NGSS aligned Earth and Space Science lab activities. These activities cover NGSS disciplinary core ideas ESS1.A - The Universe and its Stars and ESS1.B - Earth and the Solar System.
Investigate the Changing Seasons
With a heat lamp, a globe, and a PocketLab, you're ready to understand the reasons for the seaons. Check out the lesson here.
The CloudLab Model
CloudLab Introduction
The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with an understanding of the CloudLab model for performing experiments with PocketLab sensors. Teachers can set up accounts and populate those accounts with their students. CloudLab is an online foundation allowing students to perform, analyze, document and save PocketLab lab reports. The figure below shows the basic hierarchical structure of CloudLab.
The PocketLab Mini HotRod
3D Print a PocketLab Mini HotRod
The PocketLab Mini HotRod is the perfect accessory for your PocketLab Voyager. It's fun. It's small. And it's jam-packed with science.
The Science of Collisions
Listen to your PocketLab graphs with audio feedback
Listen (literally) to your PocketLab graphs with audio feedback
There are two ways to hear the data collected by PocketLab graphs with audio feedback.
Simple: Click the "Audio Feedback" button in the upper right corner of the PocketLab Web App.
Use the data collecting app Phyphox with external sensors like PocketLab
Phyphox App Can Connect with PocketLab Voyager for Interesting New Experiments and Use Cases
The public phyphox beta for connecting Bluetooth Low Energy devices to their data logging app was released this month. A collection of ten experiments, designed by PocketLab superuser Dr. Richard Born, connects PocketLab Voyager with the phyphox app for a number of exciting new use cases, including connecting two Voyagers at once and displaying both data sets simultaneously.
Eight science experiment in 90 seconds with PocketLab Voyager
Quick Science Experiments in 90 Seconds
PocketLab is jam-packed with sensors for hundreds of science experiments. It's easy to set up and get started, which allows for quick explorations into questions you're curious about.
Check out this video as an example. We did eight different science experiments in 90 seconds.
PocketLab Back to School Guide
PocketLab 3D Printed Kits for Teaching NGSS
PocketLab science kits that you can 3D print
The PocketLab team has put together four PocketLab science kits that you can 3D print for free at home or in your classroom. These kits have been specifically engineered to work with your PocketLab to collect interesting data while having a whole lot of fun. If you're a teacher, these kits are great tools to use alongside your PocketLab to help teach NGSS aligned activities.