I work for a construction company (we build machinery for moving dirt, excavators, back-hoes, dozers, and the like) on all aspects of noise and vibration for both operator comfort and machine durability. In doing so, I often use very expensive instrumentation to gather data ... until a couple of years ago when a younger fellow, pulled out his iPhone and started making sound measurements. Granted, not as good as the pricey equipment I use, but in A vs. B comparisons, works just fine. I pondered whether it was time to polish-up my résumé ... until my boss said: Don't even think about it, we'll always need you and your 'precision-grade' instrumentation.
All this to say, it is just mind boggling what all of this technology has brought up, the iPhones, then the Arduino and Raspberry PI, then I was reading the other day a fellow who attached an FLIR thermal camera to a drone and was doing thermal surveys. This sure is a good time for technology not to be a nuisance, but to simplify aspects of our everyday life.
... Sorry for rambling
