Battery-Free Approach to Ocean Internet of Things

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Ice caps are melting, garbage islands are floating, and the surface temperature of the ocean is rising but scientists are still struggling to figure out an effective solution for monitoring the depths of our oceans. Scientists want to get a pulse on how the ocean is changing, and to do this they are currently collecting data using battery-powered underwater sensors.

However, batteries can serve as a potential pollutant if they get damaged underwater. A group of MIT researchers is attempting to understand our oceans better without relying on batteries with their innovative battery-free underwater sensors.

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Nintendo sues ROM-sharing website for at least $2 million

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Nintendo isn’t afraid of using litigation in its quest to stop piracy, recently succeeding in getting Switch piracy websites blocked in the UK. Now, it is continuing that fight by filing a multimillion dollar lawsuit against a ROM-sharing site.

The company is suing RomUniverse, a subscription-based ROM service which offers unlimited downloads of new and old Nintendo games for $30 per year, as reported by Polygon.

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Forget 8K, Sony’s New 63-Foot 16K Crystal LED TV Is Now Available—for a Few Million

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When a new gogglebox drops, it’s always the same drill: The screen gets bigger, the resolution gets better and the design gets bolder. Indeed, it’s difficult for a brand to stand out. Unless you’re Sony and the new TV your peddling is the size of a New York City public bus and also happens to boasts an unheard-of 16K screen.

Earlier this year when Sony unveiled the colossal 63-foot TV—the biggest 16K screen of its kind—it had commercial cinemas in its sights. But, hey, why should theaters have all the fun? Yesterday, the Japanese tech titan announced the Crystal LED display system will be available for home installation.

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That Hidden LED Light On Your Nintendo Switch Controller Finally Has A Use

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The Nintendo Switch has been on the market for more than two and half years now, but one of its available functions hasn’t had any use (officially, at least) in all that time. Now, though, the time has finally come for that little function to shine.

On your right-hand Joy-Con and your Pro Controller, you’ll notice that the HOME button has a ring around the edge. As you may or may not already be aware, that ring is actually an LED light; we’ve seen it light up before but only when a Pro Controller connects to Steam.

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Printing ABS with an open frame 3D printer?

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People are often asking in comments how I print ABS on open frame 3D printers. For many prints, producing them in ABS is just a matter of upping the bed and nozzle temps and turning off the cooling fan. Other models, however, are destined to failure. In this guide, I explore ABS printing successes and failures, and explain why ABS can be so difficult to print using some custom animations.

Build a Tricopter to Inspect the Health of the Plants in Your Garden

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Keeping up with a garden can be difficult and time-consuming, particularly if you have a large garden — even more so if you have a farm. Checking on every individual plant yourself requires a lot of labor, and a plant’s health isn’t always obvious just from looking at it with your unaided human eyes. Fortunately if you can see in the infrared spectrum, it becomes a lot easier. To do that on a large scale, you can follow Imetomi’s tutorial to create a tricopter drone to inspect your plants.

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Georgia Tech’s Shape-Shifting Robot Is Built From Smaller Robots Known as ‘Smarticles’

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When building robots, we tend to think of using the same standard components — motors, actuators, limbs, and onboard computers — all coming together to form the construct. Researchers from Georgia Tech are changing that view by developing a large robot created by smaller robots known as Smarticles (smart active particles), which offer a potentially new locomotion technique. The tiny 3D-printed robots were designed with a pair flat arms that only do one simple thing, flap back and forth, but when five of the robots are confined in a circle, the nudge each other and form a larger robot, known as a Supersmarticle, capable of moving itself.

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