{"id":12,"date":"2014-08-23T23:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/resources\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2015-06-13T22:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:32:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Isaac&#8217;s Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>About Sir Isaac&#8217;s Apple<\/h1>\n<p>The Sir Isaac&#8217;s Apple system of applications is used to observe and record measurements from the sensors embedded in our smart devices. \u00a0Real time sensor measurements can be observed on a graph and saved to a file. There are many interesting experiments in science and physics that become possible using the accelerometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes, and other sensors embedded in our phones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">Applications to Observe Sensors<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The observer application is available for iPad and Windows PC. \u00a0Both applications can show real time sensor readings and save the measurements to a file. The iPad application can also use its internal sensors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/saveSensors-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/saveSensors-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/saveSensors-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/saveSensors.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Isaac&#8217;s Apple Observer for iPad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The iPad observer application can watch and record sensor measurements using its own internal sensors, or connected to remote devices. You can connect to an Android phone running the app, or to the Broadcom WICED Sense device.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The PC observer application is used to watch and record sensor measurements from an\u00a0Android device running the app. \u00a0The PC observer application is also used to convert measurement files into .CSV format to be graphed\u00a0in a spreadsheet. \u00a0Files synced online from the iPad app can be downloaded to your computer using the PC observer application.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/viewTest.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-18 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/viewTest-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/viewTest-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/viewTest.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaac&#8217;s Apple on Windows PC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Remote Sensor Devices<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The observer applications can connect to different\u00a0devices and\u00a0display the measurements from the sensors embedded in the remote device.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/monitorSensors.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17\" src=\"http:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/monitorSensors-200x300.png\" alt=\"monitorSensors\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/monitorSensors-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/monitorSensors.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Android application is used to monitor and broadcast sensor data over Wi-Fi to an observer application. You can select which of the phone&#8217;s sensors you would like to monitor, and set the sampling interval for measurements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BCM9WICED_SENSE-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-125\" src=\"http:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BCM9WICED_SENSE-2-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"BCM9WICED_SENSE-2\" width=\"225\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BCM9WICED_SENSE-2-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BCM9WICED_SENSE-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/isaacsapple.littlebytesofpi.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BCM9WICED_SENSE-2.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The WICED Sense by Broadcom is a small and inexpensive device targeted at developers of motion sensing internet of things applications. \u00a0This device, no bigger than your keychain,\u00a0is a wonderful tool to bring real time accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer measurements into a science or physics classroom. \u00a0The WICED Sense device can connect to the iPad observer application using Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Sir Isaac&#8217;s Apple The Sir Isaac&#8217;s Apple system of applications is used to observe and record measurements from the sensors embedded in our smart devices. \u00a0Real time sensor measurements can be observed on a graph and saved to a file. 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