Category: Engineering & Technology

  • Innovative PCB Artistic Creations

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    Today’s post comes hot on the heels of my viewing something really special. A member of one of my LinkedIn groups, Steven Rodrig, has used his artistic imagination to create some really amazing pieces of Technology Art from PCBs and Electronic Components.   Please check it out at PCB Creations   And here is just…

  • Squash Lessons for Engineering

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    Squash Lessons for Engineering The picture in today’s post comes courtesy of Dr Marc Dussault, The Exponential Growth Strategist. At his recent Exponential Business Building Bootcamp, he demonstrated how a Squash Racquet gets broken from repeated use.     So what does this have to do with Engineering? Glad you asked.   First, I have…

  • Australian Engineering Week 2010

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    Australian Engineering Week 2010 Today begins Australian Engineering Week 2010. You can get a full run down on all the events at Make It So which you might recognise as a tribute to the Star Trek series.   It got me thinking about why I got started in Engineering. It was music. I had done…

  • High Voltage Power Electronics

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    Safety in High Voltage Power Distribution My thanks to Tim Heemskerk of ABB High Voltage Division in Lilydale for this clip. It shows how dangerous High Voltage power can be in Electric Power Transmission Systems and why ABB take so much care in how they handle High Voltage Switching, Power Factor Correction and Fault Isolation…

  • From Engineer to Entrepreneur

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    This week I was the recipient of an Exponential Entrepreneur of the Year award. Last year we were received two awards for technical excellence when we won two of the 15 EDN Innovation awards handed out in Australia in 2009.   So I was very pleased to be receiving an award recognising the business side…