Author: Ray Keefe
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Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles A lot of focus is going into Hybrid and All Electric Cars. Tesla being the most well known example though there are many other successful players in this market. However the Electric Aircraft or Electric Plane or E-Plane is moving along a bit slower. E-Planes At its core, the E-Plane is a…
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Electric Vehicles: History
Electric Vehicles This is a post I started six years ago and decided not to publish. Since then things have changed a lot so here goes. The History of Electric Vehicles The Electric Vehicle has been around for a long time. The new push to Electric Vehicles is mostly being pushed by the belief…
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Casey Cardinia Business Awards Winners 2017
Meet the Winners Tonight was the Casey Cardinia Business Awards 2017 and the winners have been announced. Business and Professional Services Award Ideas Ministry Environmental Sustainability Award Beaconsfield Dental Health, Education and Wellbeing Award YMCA Casey Home Based Business Award Tour Local Hospitality Award Cannibal Creek Vineyard Manufacturing Award Powerplants Australia New Business Award…
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Satellite Internet
Satellite Internet There are many areas of the world where Internet services are not readily accessible. One of the ideas for providing poorly services areas with Internet was Google’s Project Loon which used high altitude balloons. But there are also Satellite Internet contenders. Theses were nicely covered by recent blogs at CIS 471 and I’ve picked…
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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…
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Australian Manufacturing PMI Grows in 2017
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 visually. This is a continuing trend since mid 2015 and a really good…
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Casey Tech School
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 the area. The intent is to improve Australia’s digital readiness, STEM adoption and aid schools…
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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…
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Successful Endeavours finalists in Casey Cardinia Business Awards 2017
Awards Finalists 2017 We are pleased to announce that we are finalists in the Casey Cardinia Business Awards for 2017 in two categories. These are: Business and Professional Services Manufacturer of the Year Although this isn’t the first time we have been finalists, it never gets old. These are a really great…