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A New Battery-Free System Uses Kinetic Energy to Give Devices an ‘Infinite Lifetime’

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Ridgewood NJ, BFree is a system that allows devices to smoothly operate any time power is available. It uses a power-failure resistant version of Python and energy-harvesting hardware. Anyone can use the system to make their own sustainable electronics. Last year, the researchers behind the technology unveiled a Game Boy powered by the kinetic energy of button presses. The kinetic energy is the measure of the work that an object does by virtue of its motion . The project hopes to reduce the number of dead batteries that end up as e-waste.

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Code Ninjas Midland Park’s Virtual Summer Camps Focus on Teaching Kids to Code from the Safety of their Own Homes

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Midland Park NJ,  In the past few months, our society has changed in ways we never could have anticipated. New Jersey children have been home from school since mid-March, and with many extracurricular activities and summer camps cancelled many parents are hearing “I’m bored” on repeat with no productive solutions in sight. Luckily, Code Ninjas of Midland Park thinks they have found the solution parents are looking for – fun and innovative virtual summer camps that teach children to code using popular video games.

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