Author: Ray Keefe
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Power Supply Specification
Power Supply Specification The idea for this post came from a discussion in IEEE Collabratec on how to design a Power Supply. The question of how to design a Power Supply seems innocuous enough until you really start to think back on past Power Supply designs. I was originally concerned that this was a student wanting…
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Miller Puckette and New Music Creation
Making Music is Creative Making music is a creative process. At every level. There is not only composing and playing, but there is the instruments themselves and also how we record and play back music. Technology and creativity abound at every level. I’m a musician. That is how I ended up in Electronics Engineering.…
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Self Thinking Robots – Where it Began
Self Thinking Robots Although that is what they are called, I’m not convinced it is actually thinking. It certainly wouldn’t pass the Turing Test. But I thought this showed a good comparison as to how far the state of the art has come. Lets start off with a look at the very beginnings of…
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SEBN Business Breakfast 2016 – Game Changing Growth
Good Marketing Generates Growth This is Part 2 of the SEBN (South East Business Networks) business breakfast held just before Christmas 2016. Here we have John Berenyi of Bergent Research sharing with us on how big a game changer good marketing can be. John is a registered psychologist with degrees in commerce and technology. He presented a…
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SEBN Business Breakfast 2016 – Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 and Bosch Australia This is the first of a two part post covering the SEBN (South East Business Network) business breakfast just before Christmas 2016. The first speaker was Gavin Smith of Bosch Australia. His talk was title “Life After Auto” and here is my summary. In the 1960s you could make anything in…
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IoT Interoperability
IoT Interoperability There are several big issues with IoT. The primary two are Security and Interoperability. We have tackled IoT Security and so this post looks at how different devices and systems can work together. This is Interoperability. The first thing to understand, is that middle ware providers like IBM do not want you…
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Australian Manufacturing Increasing Trend
Australian Manufacturing PMI The Australian Manufacturing PMI is a measure of the manufacturing economy in Australia. A score above 50 means it is growing and a score below 50 means it is shrinking. I recently reported in the post about out new location that we had been in growth for the past 17 months but according to…
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Brain Scanning Gets Scary
Brain Scanning The ability to scan details of the brain is a common theme of both science fiction and also modern medicine’s wish list. So just how likely is it that we will be able to do that any time soon? Check out this image captured by a project focused on capturing the Wiring Diagram…
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Design Led Innovation
Design Led Innovation Traditional Product Development comes up with the product idea, does the development, gets it into production and then tries to find customers to sell it to. Design Led Innovation tries to turn that process around so the actual needs of the customer or user become part of both the product definition and…