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Finland Turns 100

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58c35ec0e4b0c3276fb78516? In 2017, Finland is celebrating the Centennial of its independence. You probably don’t know this since Finns are notoriously shy and not particularly adept at marketing. While Finns are very proud of their country, saying anything positive about Finland is the cultural equivalent of bragging or exaggeration. In Finland, that is considered not cool.

Physical computing with the Raspberry Pi

https://opensource.com/article/17/3/physical-computing-raspberry-pi?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY Here is introduction to using Raspberry Pi GPIO and camera for this Pi day (March 13 = 3.14 on some calendars.

Eben Upton: Why it’s a long road to the Raspberry Pi 4

http://www.itpro.co.uk/strategy/28278/eben-upton-why-its-a-long-road-to-the-raspberry-pi-4 Technical limitations are the greatest challenge to developing future devices like the Raspberry Pi 4, Pi creator Eben Upton told IT Pro in an interview: physical limitations will make it difficult to continue the same pace of development on the next generation of devices.

Sigfox for IoT

IoT LPWA market is expected to grow at an annual rate of 90 percent. It is expected that in 2021 the market size of about EUR 24.5 billion. SigFox and LoRa have been competitors in the LPWAN space for several years. There are LoRa and Sigfox networks in Finland -Sigfox network is operated by Connected