Building a LiDAR-based Position Visualizer—Prototype
Rebecca Vieyra & Chrystian Vieyra (10 October 2021) If you own an iPhone 12 or 13 Pro/Pro Max, or an iPad Pro 2020/2021, you can soon...
Building a LiDAR-based Position Visualizer—Rationale
Rebecca Vieyra, Chrystian Vieyra, Mina Glenburg-Johnson, Daniel O'Brien, and Colleen Megowan Romanowicz Imagine that your smartphone...
NSF Awards $573K for Research on LiDAR with Physics Toolbox
Rebecca Vieyra, Chrystian Vieyra, Mina Glenburg-Johnson, Daniel O'Brien, and Colleen Megowan Romanowicz The National Science Foundation...
Teaching with Sensors in the Time of COVID-19
On September 9th, the American Modeling Teachers Association hosted a webinar presented by Physics Toolbox to address ways to use mobile...
Tips for Teaching Virtually with Smartphone Sensors
I have been recently following a lot of online conversations about teachers who are being asked to teach in some of the toughest...
Breaking Your Device with a Strong Magnet
Magna AR depends upon the presence of magnetic fields. Typically, we like to begin by having users explore the terrestrial magnetic...
Supporting Conceptual Understandings of Fields: A Review of the Research
Now that we've made the technological advancements in our NSF Cyberlearning grant by publicly releasing Physics Toolbox AR Field...
Flat-Earthers at Heart: Challenging Naive Ideas about Magnetic Fields
Now that we've made the technological advancements in our Cyberlearning grant, it is time for us to turn to the use of our app as a...
Stepping into a New Dimension: Using Quaternions to See the Invisible
Our previous project blogs documented some of the advancements we have made in creating an AR-based magnetic field visualizer for...
Visualizing Magnetic Fields in 3-D
Magnetic (and electric) fields are often challenging to teach and understand because they exist in three dimensions. Typical introductory...
