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The World’s Largest Coal Company is Going Solar

http://futurism.com/worlds-largest-coal-company-going-solar/ Interesting article that describes the benefit of molten salt based solar power generation – it has storage that allows it to continue electrical power generateration also at night.

IoT Summit slides from Silicon Labs

Silicon Labs presentation at Arrow IoT summit. The presenter Lars Lydersen  had hacked quantun cryptopcraphy in 2010, which lead to downturn of that industry sector. He wants that that IoT manufacturers are serious on security or otherwise bad hacks to those systems can damage the size of the business of the whole IoT sector.  

New form of light

http://www.geek.com/news/new-form-of-light-may-change-the-future-of-fiber-optics-1655201/ Interesting finding. May have some uses in optical communications.

Password art

Is your password in this art? Those are the most popular passwords. Source: Arrow IoT Summit

IoT Summit Nokia keynote

Nokia gave an interesting keynote speech in it’s IoT plans at Arrow IoT Summit to 19.5.2016. Here are some selected slides:   Nokia keynote memo: – Lots of new traffic coming – some cases cellular signaling can take more bandwith than IoT data – Nokia supports many IoT technologies – Too many players in IoT

Perf+ prototyping board

Stripboard is the generic name (also known as Veroboard) for a widely used type of electronics prototyping board characterized by a 0.1 inch (2.54 mm) regular (rectangular) grid of holes, with wide parallel strips of copper cladding running in one direction all the way across one side of the board. Stripboard is available from many vendors. Stripboards