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We Tested a Video Game You Can Smell, a Beer-Keg Rocket and Real BattleBots — Open Sauce 2026 Part 3

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Just dropped Part 3 of Open Sauce 2026 recap from San Mateo! 🚀 Beer keg liquid-fuel rocket, a scent-releasing game controller, a real BattleBots arena from Las Vegas, and a max-efficiency Guitar Hero AI. Also Duck Hunt on a CRT, a nine-month Apex Havoc replica, plus Robocop-level robotics, indie games, and more. Fewer exhibitors than 2025, but our three favorites are 🔥 Stay tuned for Part 3 highlights and links to Part 1 & 2! 📹 Watch the full video → #OpenSauce2026 #IoTForge #BattleBots #LiquidFuelRocket

6G and IoT: What the Wireless Future Looks Like After 5G

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Every ten years, almost to the year, mobile networking reinvents itself. Voice in the eighties, text in the nineties, data at the millennium, smartphones around 2010, and 5G in 2019. The cadence makes the next date easy to predict: 6G, around 2030. But 6G isn't shaping up to be a faster pipe. The framework that defines it — the ITU's IMT-2030, adopted in November 2023 — is less about speed and more about the network learning to perceive : sensing objects that carry no radio, powering tags that carry no battery, covering the planet from orbit. The generations so far competed on connecting things. 6G is the first that wants to notice them. 🔮 The Short Version Six usage scenarios define 6G — three stretched from 5G (broadband, low latency, massive IoT) and three genuinely new: Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) — the network doubles as a distributed radar, reading its own reflections. Presence, falls, drones, forklifts — detected with no sensor deployed. Ubiquito...

CES 2026, Final Day — We Survived the Biggest Hall Last

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CES 2026 final day was insane! The biggest hall revealed mega reveals from Razer, ASUS, Intel, Amazon, Samsung and more. Pet tech overload, AI health cameras, on-device AI, new Ring Elite, Project Ava and Motoko, 480Hz dual-screen laptops, 6-axis wow moments, and a dramatically powerful on-site showcase. We did it, survived the complete halls and captured every highlight. Catch the full walk-throughs, robot rookies, smart home dreams, and game-changing AI in action. Subscribe for the final wrap and all post-show deep dives from IoT Forge. 📹 Watch the full video → #CES2026 #FinalDayWalkthrough #SmartHomeTech #PetTechAI

Sensors 101: The Eyes and Ears of Every Connected Device

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Hold your phone perfectly still. Even doing nothing, it knows which way up it is, how bright the room is, how close your face is, and what the air pressure is doing — a dozen tiny devices measuring the physical world thousands of times a second. Every connected device starts exactly there. Strip away the cloud, the dashboards, the machine learning: IoT makes one simple promise — something, somewhere, is measuring something real. Take the sensors away and the Internet of Things is just the Internet. Yet sensors are the part every tutorial sprints past. "Wire the DHT22 to pin 4" — with no word on what the thing actually is, why its readings wobble, or why two identical modules disagree by two degrees. This is Sensors 101: what they are, how they talk, which families matter, and what the datasheet really means. 👁️ The Short Version A sensor is a transducer — it converts physics (heat, light, motion, chemistry) into an electrical signal. The mental model that actually works...

We Test Drove a Tesla, a $106K Wagoneer & an Electric Hot Rod — Demo Days Festival 2026

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Just rode through Demo Days Festival at Alameda Point and wow—hundreds of powertrains, real test drives, no pushy salespeople, and a robotics/AI crossover I didn’t know to expect! Jeep Grand Wagoneer, a 0-60 Cybertruck benchmark, full self-driving Model 3, an electric 1932 hot rod, custom go-karts, Toborlife AI robots, robotaxi demos, FPV drone racing, e-bikes, kids zone, and more. If you love cars meets cutting-edge tech, this is the event to bookmark. Demo Days travels across the US—check if it’s coming to your city! 📹 Watch the full video → #DemoDaysFestival #ElectricVehicles #TeslaCybertruck #JeepWagoneer #EVConversion #HumanoidRobots #RoboTaxi #FPVDrone #ElectricHotRod #AutotechShow #AlamedaPoint #BayAreaTech #EVTestDrive #AutomotiveInnovation #IoTForge

Wi-Fi HaLow: The Long-Range Low-Power Wi-Fi IoT Didn't Know It Needed

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Walk to the far end of your garden and watch your phone's Wi-Fi bars die. Thirty metres and a couple of brick walls — that's the honest range of the network that runs your digital life. Now picture a soil-moisture probe on a berry farm, a full kilometre from the farmhouse, streaming readings over Wi-Fi. No SIM card, no subscription, no mesh of repeaters. Same Wi-Fi family, same IP networking, same WPA3 — just redesigned to go far and sip power instead of going fast. It's called Wi-Fi HaLow — IEEE 802.11ah — and it fills a gap most builders don't realise Wi-Fi left open. 📡 The Short Version HaLow moves Wi-Fi below 1 GHz (902–928 MHz in the US, 863–868 MHz in Europe) and narrows the channels, trading speed for reach and battery life: Range: a kilometre to battery devices routinely; Morse Micro's 2024 line-of-sight record stands at 15.9 km Speed: ~150 kbps up to ~80 Mbps — a hundredth of modern Wi-Fi, and a hundred times most LPWANs Scale: up to 8,192 devic...

The Most Genius Inventions from Open Sauce 2026 You Need to See | Part 2

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Just dropped Part 2 of Open Sauce 2026 coverage! This year brought deeper builds, honest reflections, and standout moments like the Living Piano going wireless, Floppy Drive V2 music, Terra Nova Atlas in full VR+haptics, and Oshkat’s remote-driven RC rig. Shoutout to DigiKey for stepping up DIY support. Catch the full tour and demo deep-dives now! https://youtube.com/@IoTForge 📹 Watch the full video → #OpenSauce2026 #MakerFestival #DIYTech #IoTForge