Augmented conference : oscilloscopes

In this project, students used a software to simulate fake scientific curves and lab images on a real oscilloscope. They were then used at a scientific conference.

The students set up a tracking system to capture gestures during the conference and to make animations and drawings that serve to remember key moments.

The students created a wooden box with an interactive device that launches controlled animations via a tracking and a webcam. This allows to trigger interactive animations, trackings of drawings, all live, during a scientific conference.

The students wanted to offer video breaths during a conference, each one in its style closing a part of the conference.

We have proposed to digital design students to find ways to enrich a classic scientific conference. In a week, they had to invent four devices to shift, increase, make accessible or even aesthetic a conference on quantum physics. Challenge raised with 4 original projects tested on the same conference a week later at Théatre Le Mouffetard in front of a packed hall.

Discover here the video of this beautiful moment, and the four projects.

In 2016, the Nobel Prize was awarded for “topological phases in matter”. The subject is very difficult to explain, so we tried to make it an animated film! Welcome to a strange world full of quantum physics, electricity, magnetism and even oceanography. This short film also offers another look at science, showing how a simple little curious experience eventually generates a whole field of research. Here you can also download two posters from the same graphic world that tell the topology and how science is done.  You’ll also find lots of pretty pictures on these topics to reuse in your own lessons or conferences. And as a bonus, a short making-of.

In 2016, the Nobel Prize was awarded for « topological phases in matter ». This subject is very difficult to explain, so we tried to make it an animated film! Welcome to a strange world full of quantum physics, electricity, magnetism and even oceanography. This short film also offers another look at science, to show showing how a simple little curious experience will eventually generates a whole field of research. Here you can also download here two posters from the same graphic world that tell the topology and how science is done. You’ll also find lots of pretty pictures on these topics to reuse in your own lessons or conferences. And as a bonus, a short making-of.

Des étudiants en illustration scientifique de l’Ecole Estienne ont conçu avec nous une exposition sur le tableau périodique qui met en scène des aspects peu connus et fascinants : l’histoire du tableau, l’origine des atomes, la forme des électrons, l’écologie, la vraie allure des métaux… De l’exposition, nous avons conçus 9 posters autonomes. Téléchargez-les et exposez-les librement, vous pouvez bien sûr n’en garder que quelques uns selon vos goûts. Lycées, médiathèques, musées, tous les terrains sont possibles !

La physique quantique se joue à trop petite échelle pour qu’on puisse la voir… sauf dans un cas où elle peut se voir à l’œil nu : dans les supraconducteurs. Phénomène spectaculaire, la supraconductivité permet le mouvement perpétuel, le stockage d’énergie parfait, et même la lévitation quantique !

Au cœur des ordinateurs quantiques les plus performants, elle vient même d’être observée il y a quelques mois presque à température ambiante dans des matériaux à base d’hydrogène. Venez découvrir ce phénomène étonnant, les questions qu’il suscite et ses applications présentes et à venir, avec en prime des expériences en direct.

Une conférence donnée à USI 2019

These sheets propose a series of experiments in physics that you can do with your smartphone sensors: accelerometers, light and magnetic field sensors, camera, microphone … Use a dedicated application (such as PhyPhox for example) to transform your smartphone into a pocket lab! Combine scientific rigor and creativity in the realization of your experimental setups to carry out these experiments.

These sheets are available in French and English.