Did last week seem like a rehash of the week before? Basketball playoffs, every good seat in every good movie theater full of Avengers fans, and on Game of Thrones (spoiler alert!) there was drinking and betrayal and death. And, no spoiler alert, “randy” behavior (for our British readers).

Hackster TV covered a lot of great robotic projects last year. Here's a gone-but-not-forgotten look at the best of the best.

‘Twas a sad weekend for fans of Westeros and the Marvel Comics Universe.

IoT Playbook Insight: People ask where to get help on starting IoT projects. Here's one good answer: "Avnet is hosting an upcoming series of IoT Solutions Cellular Workshops with Microsoft, STMicroelectronics and Verizon.

5G is to mobile what broadband was to dial-up.

Adding an Internet of Things device is step one. Step two is getting the resulting data to your applications.

Vendors have made some strides toward unified endpoint management, but wider adoption of industry standards and greater use of open source-based firmware are needed.

IoT Playbook Insight: The Internet of Things adds an entire new world of networking often unfamiliar to IT integrators: voice systems and cellular data, all powered by SIM cards.