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πŸ“± Smartphone Sensor Detective

Investigate how a phone understands the world. Tune sensor accuracy, sampling speed, battery limits, privacy mode, and app goal to see what trade-offs engineers make.

Detective controls

β€”Estimated runtime
β€”Detection score
β€”Privacy score
β€”Data per minute

Sensor dashboard

This learning model is simplified. Real phones combine hardware sensors, operating-system permissions, AI models, safety rules, and calibration.

Press the button to compare accuracy, battery life, data use, and privacy.

What each sensor does

Challenge missions

Mission 1: Battery rescue

Drop samples per second and camera frames. Can you double runtime without ruining the mission?

Mission 2: Privacy upgrade

Switch to strict mode. Which features get safer, and which get less powerful?

Mission 3: Metro detective

Make GPS accurate enough to spot a station entrance but efficient enough for a long journey.

Mission 4: AI product pitch

Explain your settings as if you were launching a helpful educational phone app.