{"id":128260,"date":"2021-09-29T03:59:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/now-everyone-can-build-battery-free-electronic-devices"},"modified":"2021-09-29T03:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T10:59:42","slug":"now-everyone-can-build-battery-free-electronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/now-everyone-can-build-battery-free-electronic-devices","title":{"rendered":"Now everyone can build battery-free electronic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-RhCrdu7kDg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last year, computer engineers from Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) introduced the world\u2019s first battery-free Game Boy, which harvests both solar energy and the user\u2019s kinetic energy from button mashing to power an unlimited lifetime of game play.<\/p>\n<p>The same team now introduces a new platform that enables makers, hobbyists and novice programmers to build their own battery-free electronic devices that run with intermittent, harvested energy.<\/p>\n<p>Called BFree, the system includes energy-harvesting hardware (the BFree Shield) and a power-failure-resistant version of Python, one of the most accessible and most used programming languages. All the user needs is a basic understanding of Python in order to quickly and easily turn any do-it-yourself (DIY) <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/smart+device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">smart device<\/a> into a battery-free version. With this technology, novice programmers can now turn their DIY battery-powered motion sensor, for example, into a solar-powered sensor with an infinite lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, computer engineers from Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) introduced the world\u2019s first battery-free Game Boy, which harvests both solar energy and the user\u2019s kinetic energy from button mashing to power an unlimited lifetime of game play. The same team now introduces a new platform that enables makers, hobbyists and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}