Author: Ray Keefe

  • Embracing the Digital Future

    Digital Tomorrow is Today The most recent Casey Cardinia Business Group breakfast heard from Chris Riddell, futurist. This is a summary of what he said.     The future is already here. The digital revolution has happened. So what about tomorrow?   This is the question Chris posed to the…

  • IoT Security

    IoT Security The Internet of Things, or IoT, is a pivotal component of the future and is driving initiatives from Smart Cities through Ubiquitous Computing and Augmented Reality. Of course the next step up from Smart Cities is a Smarter Planet. But we aren’t at Smart Cities yet.   An…

  • Light Cameras

    DSLR or Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera Ignoring the play on words, the light camera is a major breakthrough in the use of multiple optical viewpoint cameras to create synthetic images that can be taken with something the size of a smart phone and rivals DSLR Camera photographs.   And…

  • Mechanical Gears Breakthrough

    Mechanisms Mechanisms are important in many aspects of modern life. They adjust the focus on your smart phone camera, put the wheels down when a plane is coming in to land, allows automobiles, trains, trucks and ships to move and even allow probes to roam about on the surface of…

  • Schools of the Future

    Schools Today The modern school as we know it was designed to provide workers for the expanding paradigm of the Industrial Revolution. That is, the first Industrial Revolution. We are now up to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. So how well are we doing three Industrial…

  • LED Street Lighting

    LED Street Lighting With concern for rising global emissions and the majority of the worlds power still generated by burning fuels of one kind of another, the replacement of older street lighting technologies with higher efficiency and longer life LED Street Lighting would appear to make sense. And on the…

  • Nanowires Enable FinFET Successor

    FinFETs Rule At the moment, the dominant transistor technology used to make high density silicon devices is the FinFET. This is made using vertical fins allowing the gate to wrap around the Source and Drain. This improves control of the channel.   Some additional details are available at FinFET  …

  • Memristors

    Memristor The Memristor is a device that was theoretically predicted in 1971 by Leon Chua but not demonstrated in practice until 2008. It is one of the four Fundamental Circuit Elements. The full collection is:   Resistor Capacitor Inductor Memristor The diagram below shows how they relate to the physical…

  • Success Follows Pursuit of Passion

    Passion Matters Because we design other people’s products for them, we get to meet a lot of people who want success. There is nothing wrong with that. Some want to Make a Difference and are pursuing a cause they are passionate about. And I get the most satisfaction from helping…

  • GPS to 10cm

    GPS History GPS started with Sputnik. This was covered really well by Steven Johnson in his book on “Where Good Ideas Come From“. Here is a summary.   The basic plot is easy to understand. Smart people work out how to use existing stuff to do extraordinary things with it.…