Author: Ray Keefe
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PACE Zenith Awards 2015
PACE Zenith Awards 2015 We have only just heard. You probably already know that we are finalists for the Endeavour Awards 2015 this year with 3 of our projects. Today we got the news that we are finalists in four categories at the PACE Zenith Awards for 2015. I’m sure at least one of you…
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National Manufacturing Week 2015
National Manufacturing Week 2015 In a couple of weeks Australia celebrates National Manufacturing Week 2015. Successful Endeavours will be exhibiting there along with the South East Melbourne Manufacturers Alliance (SEMMA) as part of Austech. This year the convention runs in Melbourne at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from Tuesday 26 May 2015…
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Electronics Design: PCB Layout
PCB Layout After the Schematic Capture component of the Electronics Design is complete, the logical connections for the electronics components have been determined. If the Electronics CAD package also supports it, you can add rules to guide the Printed Circuit Board Layout, also abbreviated to PCB Layout which we will use from here on. …
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Fine Pitch PCB
Fine Pitch Printed Circuit Board This example is from a project coming to the end of the Proof of Concept phase. So we have done the Electronics Design and also completed the PCB Layout. I can’t tell you what it does, but you don’t really need to know in order to appreciate the technology. This…
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Endeavour Awards 2015 Finalists
Endeavour Awards 2015 As part of National Manufacturing Week, Manufacturing Monthly run the Endeavour Awards to celebrate Australian manufacturing success stories. Last year we were a finalist for the Technology Application of the Year. This year we are very excited to announce that we are finalists in two categories and in one of…
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Australian Technical Events 2015
2015 Australian Technical Events My thanks go to Paul Daniels of Circuit Challenges and LC Circuits for preparing this list. FIRST Robotics Competition 11-14 Mar 2015 Sydney South East Asia Protection and Automation Conference 17-18 Mar 2015 Sydney International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 19-24 Apr 2015 Brisbane CONNECT — Expo 2015 21-22 Apr…
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Electronics Design: Schematic Capture
Schematic Capture Schematic Capture is the process of defining the logic connections between different components in an Electronic Circuit. At the end of the process you have a diagram or Schematic of the circuit. That’s a complicated way of saying that it shows the connections between the selected components. We use Altium Designer as our…
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Technology Challenge Feasibility Study
Technology Challenge We have had to keep quiet about this until the Victorian Government announcement today. Now we can let you know that Successful Endeavours was awarded the Feasibility Study stage for the Gas Sensors in Sewers project. We will be working with Melbourne Water to put together the study and it will be based…
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Electronics Design: Component Selection
Component Selection We have worked our way through Requirements Capture and Technology Selection. After doing some initial design work and deciding on how the circuit will work, you have to find components that you can buy on a reasonable lead time and at a reasonable price. This depends a lot on the expected production volume…