Author: Ray Keefe

  • Miller Puckette and New Music Creation

    Making Music is Creative Making music is a creative process. At every level. There is not only composing and playing, but there is the instruments themselves and also how we record and play back music. Technology and creativity abound at every level.   I’m a musician. That is how I…

  • Self Thinking Robots – Where it Began

    Self Thinking Robots Although that is what they are called, I’m not convinced it is actually thinking. It certainly wouldn’t pass the Turing Test. But I thought this showed a good comparison as to how far the state of the art has come.   Lets start off with a look…

  • SEBN Business Breakfast 2016 – Game Changing Growth

    Good Marketing Generates Growth This is Part 2 of the SEBN (South East Business Networks) business breakfast held just before Christmas 2016. Here we have John Berenyi of Bergent Research sharing with us on how big a game changer good marketing can be. John is a registered psychologist with degrees in commerce…

  • SEBN Business Breakfast 2016 – Industry 4.0

    Industry 4.0 and Bosch Australia This is the first of a two part post covering the SEBN (South East Business Network) business breakfast just before Christmas 2016. The first speaker was Gavin Smith of Bosch Australia. His talk was title “Life After Auto” and here is my summary.   In the 1960s…

  • IoT Interoperability

    IoT Interoperability There are several big issues with IoT. The primary two are Security and Interoperability. We have tackled IoT Security and so this post looks at how different devices and systems can work together. This is Interoperability.   The first thing to understand, is that middle ware providers like…

  • Australian Manufacturing Increasing Trend

    Australian Manufacturing PMI The Australian Manufacturing PMI is a measure of the manufacturing economy in Australia. A score above 50 means it is growing and a score below 50 means it is shrinking. I recently reported in the post about out new location that we had been in growth for the past…

  • Brain Scanning Gets Scary

    Brain Scanning The ability to scan details of the brain is a common theme of both science fiction and also modern medicine’s wish list. So just how likely is it that we will be able to do that any time soon?   Check out this image captured by a project focused…

  • Indoor Positioning Systems

    Outdoor Positioning Systems We have all become very used to the idea that a phone or car can know where it is using GPS or one of the equivalent satellite based positioning systems. And it gets better all the time. Modern chips can get you down to centimetres under ideal…

  • Design Led Innovation

    Design Led Innovation Traditional Product Development comes up with the product idea, does the development, gets it into production and then tries to find customers to sell it to.   Design Led Innovation tries to turn that process around so the actual needs of the customer or user become part…

  • Successful Endeavours New Location

    We Moved That’s right. After seven great years of growth and making a difference to the local manufacturing economy, we ran out of room. So it’s good bye to lovely Berwick Village and hello to Narre Warren.   Our new address is:   Suite 4, Level 1, Casey Corporate Centre,…