Category: Electronics Product Development

  • 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 to illustrate the typical qualities…

  • 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 eight channels of third order…

  • arcHUB – Smart Cities case study

    Smart Cities This follows on from our look at Smart Cities and the technology mix being considered for how you implement them. For this post we will look at the development of a Smart City Telemetry sensor suite and the ICT communications that go with it. This is also a classic IoT case study.  …

  • Project Management – pre-preparation

    Project Management This post will look at an aspect of managing projects that is often overlooked. These are the steps you need to take prior to project commencement. The idea for this came from a presentation by Graeme Joy to the Casey Cardinia Business Group covering his expedition to the North Pole.   Planning a Project…

  • Printed Electronics Overview

    Printed Electronics Way back in 2011 we looked at the state of Printed Electronics and concluded this was a rapidly emerging area of Technology and had been since the previous look at The Future of Low Cost Electronics Manufacture in 2009. It has been a while so what has happened since then?   This is…