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• Doug Engelbart – Invented modern computing

  Oct 17, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Collaboration, Innovation, Technology

  Doug Engelbart There are lots of people who have done enormous service to the world through their inventiveness and willingness to share with other. A good example is Dennis Richie who I gave a tribute to in 2011 and who… Continue reading

• Electronics Design: Prototype

  Oct 10, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Electronics Design, Electronics Prototyping, PCB Design, Product Development

  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… Continue reading

• Australian Manufacturing PMI Grows in 2017

  Oct 3, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Made in Australia

  Australian Manufacturing PMI The PMI, or Purchasing Manager’s Index, is a measure of whether a sector is growing or contracting. Growth is above 50 and contraction is below 50. So here is the last 12 months for Australian Manufacturing shown… Continue reading

• Casey Tech School

  Sep 27, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Innovation, Technical Education

  Tech Schools Project In Schools of the Future I wrote about the Victorian Government Tech School initiative which is intended to augment existing High Schools with a High Technology facility that is a shards asset for the all the schools in… Continue reading

• Voltera PCB prototyping

  Sep 22, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Electronics Prototyping, Innovation, Product Development, Technology

  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… Continue reading