2011/08/04 by Zoltan Gingl, Zoltán Gingl, Gingl, Zoltan +9
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1108.1109
MPTL-HSCI 2011 Joint conference, 15-17 September 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia
arxiv created 2011/08/04 · openalex publication_date 2011/08/04 · arxiv updated 2011/08/05 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Sound cards, which count as standard equipment in today's computers, can be turned into measurement tools, making experimentation very efficient and cheap. The chief difficulties to overcome are the lack of proper hardware interfacing and processing software. Sound-card experimentation becomes really viable only if we demonstrate how to connect different sensors to the sound card and provide suitable open-source software to support the experiments. In our talk, we shall present a few applications of sound cards in measurements: photogates, stopwatches and an example of temperature measurement and registration. We also provide the software for these applications.