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https://www.linux.com/news/event/open-source-summit-na/2017/5/thin-client-market-embraces-raspberry-pi Is the Raspberry Pi ready to take over the low-end thin client market? This week, NComputing unveiled the RX-HDX, its second Raspberry Pi based thin client. In addition, ViewSonic announced a software upgrade for the Pi-based SC-T25 thin client that it announced last year. The future of thin clients — low-cost, remotely managed virtual client →

https://hyperallergic.com/379626/a-field-of-lavender-nourished-by-trumps-tweets/ This is a strange kind of IoT agriculture project: A subterranean field of lavender, planted by Martin Roth in Midtown Manhattan, is nurtured by lights that are largely controlled by the President’s tweets. The urban garden was installed by artist Martin Roth for his exhibition. It carries a literal title: In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of →

https://opensource.com/article/17/5/upgrade-your-car-these-5-arduino-projects Low-cost microcontrollers like the Arduino have opened new doors for makers looking to do fun and interesting things with their vehicles. This article takes look at a few car-related projects that make use of the popular open hardware microcontroller. →

https://blog.hackster.io/death-of-moores-law-makes-open-hardware-possible-7aaad86e47bf Bunnie argued that while Moore’s Law held if you started developing a project at the point when a vendor released their silicon it would be obsolescent even before you managed to ship it.  We may well have reached the point where our computing is “good enough.” That, at least as far as computing is concerned, we’re →

https://blog.hackster.io/the-choitek-megamark-robot-does-it-all-33b3a8bb6cfe Many robots are tasked to do one, or several related operations, and do them well. The Choitex Megamark, however, from Carnegie Mellon computer science student John Choi, can perform a variety of actions, though currently it doesn’t appear to do them very well at all. →

https://www.fastcompany.com/40421871/this-machine-just-started-sucking-co2-out-of-the-air-to-save-us-from-climate-change Climeworks carbon capture device will take the gas from the air and sell it or store it in the ground. Now we just need a few hundred thousand more–as quickly as possible. →

http://makezine.com/2017/05/29/gdc-weird-video-games-controls/ This article shows some unconventional game controllers. “Unsurprisingly, microcontrollers like Arduino and its endless variants are the brains behind many of these interfaces.” →

https://techcrunch.com/gallery/internet-trends-2017/ Here are the must-read stats about what’s happening with Internet adoption, smartphones, ads, ecommerce, entertainment, gaming, enterprise healthcare, China, India, and startups. →

I visited Embedded Conference Finland 2017 around one month ago ( May 3, 2017). I wrote about it in Finnish to Uusiteknologia.fi web site. Ufortuantely I did not have time at the moment to write material on it to this blog. Here is some material on that here.  Here are some slides and advice picked →

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/05/29/527892222/in-public-understanding-of-science-alternative-facts-are-the-norm?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170529 The notion of alternative facts was roundly mocked on social media.  But there are many alternative facts that are just as absurd from an empirical point of view but widely endorsed nonetheless: that dinosaurs once coexisted with humans; that vaccines cause autism; that genetically modified foods are dangerous to eat; that humans are not responsible for →