Author: Ray Keefe
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Supercapacitors Improve
Supercapacitors Supercapacitors are based on regular capacitors with very high energy storage and which can transfer that energy very rapidly. This means you can get rapid energy delivery and also rapid charging. This makes them the ideal complement to batteries which can store much larger amounts of energy but which cannot be charged as rapidly and…
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Wireless Power at CES 2016
Wireless Power Wireless Power is one of the big topics for future electronics power. Cota is one of the players but there are plenty more wanting to be part of this emerging technology area. The main issue is not just charging devices in cradles, but charging them wherever they are. Even moving. So how…
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IoT in 2016
Internet of Things 2016 This is the year that the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to become the single biggest category for connected consumer electronics products. This was covered in more detail in our post on The Internet of Things drives economic growth. But what about other sectors like Infrastructure? In the Pace Zenith…
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Australian Technical Events 2016
2016 Australian Technical Events My thanks go to Paul Daniels of Circuit Challenges and LC Circuits for preparing most of this list and to Joseph Madeley of IDC Technologies for details on their events. International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation 18-19 Jan 2016 Brisbane LINUX Conference 1-5 Feb 2016 Geelong Interactive Entertainment Conference 2-5 Feb 2016…
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Creating Product Specifications
Requirements Capture versus Product Specification In our post on Requirements Capture I looked at how we can go about understanding what a product has to do, who it has to do it for, and how to assess that. The output of this process is often referred to as a Product Specification or more specifically a…