Author: Ray Keefe
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Worlds Thinnest Hologram
Holograms Holograms are the product of Holography. This sounds rather self referencing. You can think of this as recording light the way you record sound. So you can have monophonic sound or full surround sound. A 3D Hologram allows you to see the original object from different directions as you move around it even though…
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Light at Work
Putting Light to Work Light is a really interesting thing. It has so many different aspects. And it took us a long time to work out exactly how it functioned. And in many ways that is still an ongoing process. So this post is a brief survey of some recent advances in our understanding of…
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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…
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Australian Manufacturing Continues to Grow Strongly
Australian Manufacturing Boom I’m really pleased to announce that the growth in Australian Manufacturing last year was the biggest since the GFC. Australian Manufacturing Exports now exceed 2009 levels and it was the second largest jobs growth sector in the entire Australian economy. You can probably tell I’m pretty excited about that. Here…
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Antennas – The History
Introducing Andrew Walla This is a guest blog article from Andrew Walla who is an expert in Radio Frequency Engineering (RF), particularly focusing on small form factor Antennas. So the emphasis is on compact antennas which fits in with our recent emphasis on the Internet of Things (IoT). A couple of other caveats. Notable omissions…
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Cellular IoT Communications
LPWAN = Low Power Wide Area Network LPWAN is typically thought about as cellular data networks but that involves a contradiction since cellular and low power are inherently in conflict with each other. For instance, a standard 3G or 4G cellular modem will have a peak current draw of up to 2A during transmission and…
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Connect Expo 2017
Connect Expo The Connect Expo is on each year around late March in Melbourne at the Exhibition and Convention Centre. I had gone to previous events but this was our first time as an exhibitor. This was by far the best Connect Expo I have been to. The mix of software vendors, web platform vendors,…