Author: Ray Keefe

  • Casey Business Awards 2013 Pictures

    Casey Business Awards We finally have photos from the Casey Business Awards for 2013 so here they are.   The picture above is for the Business and Professional Services Award for 2013 and was presented by the Department of State Development, Business and Innovation DSDBI. If you have been keeping…

  • Solar Cell Efficiency

    Solar Cells The primary Solar Cell material is silicon. It converts photons into electricity and the more efficient panels have a multi-layered construction. But it isn’t only the construction that affects the efficiency. There are other factors such as: Angle of Incidence of the incoming light Photon Density in the…

  • Space Travel Progress

    Space Travel The is another step forward for the Virgin Galactic start up. It has now completed several trips into space including a recent flawless return cycle. And the mechanism used to launch the space vehicle is to get the craft to a high altitude using conventional lift then use…

  • Casey Business Awards 2013

    Casey Business Awards 2013 We found out in August that we were Casey Business Awards 2013 Finalists in 2 categories: Business and Professional Services Award Manufacturer of the Year   Tonight at the Casey Business Awards Gala Dinner our MC, Tracey Curro did an excellent job of running the night.…

  • Mechanical Computer

    Computer Programming In a previous post I referred to Ada Lovelace who has been recognised as the First Computer Programmer and an inspiration to legends such as Alan Turing. However most of her programs never ran on anything. The technology to do it didn’t exist and was too hard and…

  • First Computer Programmer

    Computer Programming When we think of Computer Programming, we are generally thinking of electronic based computing engines with code running out of some form of electronic memory and typed in using some form of keyboard. Even punch cards partially fit this paradigm. And they seem ancient now. So would it…

  • Mindset of a Champion

    What makes a champion? I took the title of this post from a blog written by our Business Mentor,  Dr Marc Dussault, The Exponential Growth Strategist. We heard a different perspective on what it takes to be a champion when Brooke Hansen shared her story at the Casey Cardinia Business…

  • Wireless Power

    Wireless Power Is Coming In a very real sense it is already here in part. Wireless Charging is becoming mainstream. But seriously powering a device wirelessly has been a difficult challenge and there are many who think it will never be effective unless done at power levels that would be…

  • Olympics of Engineering

    Olympics of Engineering Have you heard of the Olympics of Engineering before? Well it also goes under the more common name of the World Engineering Conference and Convention which is part of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations. But just like the Olympic Games it is held every four years.…

  • Visualisation: Part 3

    From Engineer To Entrepreneur This is another one of those pictures that gives you a different impression of which way the door swings depending on whether you use the top of the picture or the bottom of the picture as your reference.   On the evening of 31st August I…