Author: Ray Keefe

  • Electric Vehicles: History

    Electric Vehicles This is a post I started six years ago and decided not to publish. Since then things have changed a lot so here goes.   The History of Electric Vehicles The Electric Vehicle has been around for a long time. The new push to Electric Vehicles is mostly…

  • Casey Cardinia Business Awards Winners 2017

    Meet the Winners Tonight was the Casey Cardinia Business Awards 2017 and the winners have been announced.   Business and Professional Services Award Ideas Ministry Environmental Sustainability Award Beaconsfield Dental Health, Education and Wellbeing Award YMCA Casey Home Based Business Award Tour Local Hospitality Award Cannibal Creek Vineyard Manufacturing Award…

  • Satellite Internet

    Satellite Internet There are many areas of the world where Internet services are not readily accessible. One of the ideas for providing poorly services areas with Internet was Google’s Project Loon which used high altitude balloons.   But there are also Satellite Internet contenders. Theses were nicely covered by recent blogs at…

  • Doug Engelbart – Invented modern computing

    Doug Engelbart There are lots of people who have done enormous service to the world through their inventiveness and willingness to share with other. A good example is Dennis Richie who I gave a tribute to in 2011 and who gave us the C Programming Language, one of the most…

  • Electronics Design: Prototype

    What is a Prototype? A Prototype is done in order to explore some aspect of a new opportunity without having to fully commit to it yet. Prototype has a number of potential meanings including:   the original or model on which something is based or formed someone or something that serves…

  • Australian Manufacturing PMI Grows in 2017

    Australian Manufacturing PMI The PMI, or Purchasing Manager’s Index, is a measure of whether a sector is growing or contracting. Growth is above 50 and contraction is below 50. So here is the last 12 months for Australian Manufacturing shown visually.     This is a continuing trend since mid…

  • Casey Tech School

    Tech Schools Project In Schools of the Future I wrote about the Victorian Government Tech School initiative which is intended to augment existing High Schools with a High Technology facility that is a shards asset for the all the schools in the area. The intent is to improve Australia’s digital readiness,…

  • Voltera PCB prototyping

    Voltera V-One The Voltera V-One is a PCB Prototyping system from voltera.io. And we just got one having put in a pre-order in April 2017. So we made the default “Hello World”project to make sure it works. And it did. Now the first serious assignment is making a single sided PCB with…

  • Successful Endeavours finalists in Casey Cardinia Business Awards 2017

    Awards Finalists 2017 We are pleased to announce that we are finalists in the Casey Cardinia Business Awards for 2017 in two categories. These are:   Business and Professional Services Manufacturer of the Year     Although this isn’t the first time we have been finalists, it never gets old.…

  • arcHUB – Agilent Innovation in Analytical Science runner up

    arcHUB Tonight I was at the CleanUp 2017 conference awards dinner. We recently learned that the the  arcHUB Smart Cities device was a finalist for the Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science. This award was presented tonight.   The arcHUB Smart Cities device measures multiple data types that are useful for the management of Smart Cities including particulates,…