Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 7.1
Applications of Smartphones
Engineering
Tools
Replaced
Hardware Replaced with a Smartphone
with a Smartphone
Land-line telephone
Camera
Clock/watch/alarm clock
Calendar
Boombox, mp3 player, CD or tape player
DVD player
TV
Address book/rolodex
Calculator
Voice recorder
Translators
GPS
Notebook
Banking
Flash drive
Remote control
Radio
Ebook reader
Computer (web browser)
Library: books, encyclopedia, manuals, journals, papers, mono-
graphs, magazines and newspapers
Mail
Games/game consol
Police scanner
Travel tickets
Credit cards
ID
Banking/ATM
Gambling cards
Keys for car
Flash light
Levels
Graphing calculator
Solar calculator
Light meter
Handbook for engineering
Decibel meter
Data acquisition
Image recognition
Spectral light meter
Compass
Tape measure
Telescope
GPS for coordinates of large
spaces
Taper measurer for small
things—length of phone
Bluetooth comm—use to trian-
gulate
Pedometer
Two phones—sound—distance
app
One phone—length measure-
ment with—scale
Database questioning
Scale
Throwing velocity, slapshot ve-
locity
Speedometer
Measure pressure, temperat-
ure—add tools
Walkie talkie
Radiation detector
7.4 Open-Source Research in the Future
As we have seen in detail in Chapters 4 - 6 and the literature [ 8 - 11 ] results show, the open-
source hardware design approach develops extremely low-cost, high-quality, customized sci-
entific instruments. The once onerous learning curve associated with open source has largely
been overcome due to innovation and rapid development of tools such as the Arduino pro-
totyping platform discussed in Chapter 4 , the RepRap discussed in Chapter 5 , and associated
software from the Linux community. The entire process of designing, printing and assembling
new scientific research tools enables scientists to draw extensively on previously completed
open-source work, requiring only a moderate literature review and moderate skill levels to im-
 
 
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