Category: Technology
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LED Lighting To Finally Become Cost Effective
LED Lighting Ten years ago, LED Lighting was set to revolutionise the general illumination market. LEDs, also known as Light Emitting Diodes, had already taken over are the role as indicator panel illuminators and user interfaces on industrial, commercial and consumer products. All the trend lines indicated that they would eclipse the incandescent light globe…
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Plastic Electronics
Plastic Semiconductors In a previous post on Printed Electronics we looked at new product opportunities that were being created using new fabrication techniques for semiconductors. But advances are also being made that benefit both conventional or new product concepts. In The Plastic Processor we get an insight into how you can make a microprocessor using…
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Printed Electronics
Printed Electronics – A New Roadmap The direction of Printed Electronics has taken an interesting new turn with the focus being no longer only on reducing production cost. Now the electronics industry is looking at product ideas that were previously thought to be impossible. Some examples from The Future Of Printed Electronics shows previously unanticipated…
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PCB Design could be changed forever
Carbon Nanotubes replace Solder Pads Recent breakthroughs in nanotechnology could change the way Printed Circuit Boards, PCBs, are made and this could start happening soon. If you either the Design PCBs or Manufacture PCBs then you will want to keep up with this new technology that uses Nanotape PCB Pads. Here is a picture…
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Paper Electronics
Paper Electronics Devices Recent breakthroughs at Harvard Labs have led to the creation of a paper based accelerometer that matches the sensitivity of silicon based MEMS accelerometers so common in air bags and the Nintendo Wii system. The full article can be read on the IEEE website at Paper Accelerometer Could Mean Disposable Devices. …
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Alternative Energy Manufacturing Opportunities in Australia
This post is a summary of an article I wrote for the AMTIL Australian Manufacturing Technology magazine. And here is a picture taken of a Solar Systems concentrated Solar Power Dish. We were involved in software upgrades to the dish controller. It produced 114KWhr of power on an August day at Fosterville, near Bendigo…
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Benoit Mandelbrot – Father of Fractal Geometry
Benoit Mandelbrot has passed away, but his contribution to this world will remain an enduring legacy. Our local paper, The Age, ran an article as Father of fractal geometry dies . I owe a lot to Benoit Mandelbrot. His Mandelbrot Set graphical representation of the formula Z(n+1) = Z(n)^2 + c iterated until it…
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Innovative PCB Artistic Creations
Today’s post comes hot on the heels of my viewing something really special. A member of one of my LinkedIn groups, Steven Rodrig, has used his artistic imagination to create some really amazing pieces of Technology Art from PCBs and Electronic Components. Please check it out at PCB Creations And here is just…
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The New Inventors – a Win for Can-Tek
We are so pleased to announce that Ross Brinsdon of Can-Tek has won the latest episode of the ABC program The New Inventors with his water based aerosol touch up paint product which allows you to get exactly the custom colour you want in an aerosol can that is loaded in store and is water…