Author: Ray Keefe

  • Mains Power Plugs

    Mains Power Plugs These days, more than ever before, many of the new consumer products developed have to run from batteries. But there are still an enormous number of products that run from mains power, including the battery chargers needed for all those battery powered products. If you are targeting…

  • Casey Business Awards 2013: Finalists

    Business Awards Finalists 2013 We are pleased to announce we are finalists for the Casey Business Awards 2013. The categories are: Manufacturer of the Year Business and Professional Services of the Year The official announcement was made by the City of Casey on 21 August at Monash University Berwick Campus…

  • Data Storage Durability

    Data Storage History The storage medium for data has become increasingly sophisticated over time both speeding up the writing and reading of data and increasing the density of data that is stored so that we can now store on a single device the size of my thumb all the knowledge…

  • Embedded Development: The Interview Part 2

    Embedded Development This is the second in a series of interviews between Ray Keefe of Successful Endeavours and Lance Harvie of People 4 Embedded. Lance is a LinkedIn connection of mine has wanted to do a series of interviews with Embedded Developers to go over issues, tips and career advice…

  • Automated Manufacturing

    Automated Manufacturing Why Automate? It is expensive to do and takes a lot of time and planning. The answer is that you get 2 things for it simultaneously with Automation that you can’t get together any other way:   Consistency Scale   But it is also an impressive thing to…

  • Manufacturing Innovation Precincts

    Innovation Precincts 50 years of low support for local industries can do a lot to discourage innovation. So it is a good thing to see the federal government putting some thought behind how to stimulate local industry growth instead of stifling it. I personally think they have hit on a…

  • Technology Creates The Future

    How to change the world To make a significant difference in our world, you either have to do something outstanding or have a lot of influence. Or both. And it will need many people to contribute over the course of the project.   So I keep an eye on some…

  • Embedded Development: The Interview Part 1

    Embedded Development Embedded Development is the process of creating a computing system that is encapsulated within a self contained object. This object may or may not be part of a larger system. In it’s own right it is an Embedded System. So how do you go about creating an Embedded…

  • Melbourne South East Small Business of the Year 2013

    Successful Endeavours are joint winners of the Melbourne South East Small Business award for 2013

  • Visualisation: Part 2

    The Client Perspective What you see depends on which direction you are looking from.   If you count from the top, there are 10 bars. But there are only 7 bars when you count from the bottom. In this case it is an optical illusion based on how the drawing…