Category: Technology
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Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles A lot of focus is going into Hybrid and All Electric Cars. Tesla being the most well known example though there are many other successful players in this market. However the Electric Aircraft or Electric Plane or E-Plane is moving along a bit slower. E-Planes At its core, the E-Plane is a…
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Electric Vehicles: History
Electric Vehicles This is a post I started six years ago and decided not to publish. Since then things have changed a lot so here goes. The History of Electric Vehicles The Electric Vehicle has been around for a long time. The new push to Electric Vehicles is mostly being pushed by the belief…
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Satellite Internet
Satellite Internet There are many areas of the world where Internet services are not readily accessible. One of the ideas for providing poorly services areas with Internet was Google’s Project Loon which used high altitude balloons. But there are also Satellite Internet contenders. Theses were nicely covered by recent blogs at CIS 471 and I’ve picked…
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Voltera PCB prototyping
Voltera V-One The Voltera V-One is a PCB Prototyping system from voltera.io. And we just got one having put in a pre-order in April 2017. So we made the default “Hello World”project to make sure it works. And it did. Now the first serious assignment is making a single sided PCB with eight channels of third order…
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arcHUB – Agilent Innovation in Analytical Science runner up
arcHUB Tonight I was at the CleanUp 2017 conference awards dinner. We recently learned that the the arcHUB Smart Cities device was a finalist for the Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science. This award was presented tonight. The arcHUB Smart Cities device measures multiple data types that are useful for the management of Smart Cities including particulates, gases, micro-climate, pedestrian traffic, water…
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arcHUB – Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science 2017
Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science We are pleased to announce that our client, The Active Reactor Company, are finalists in the Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science 2017 this coming Tuesday 12 September 2017. This is for the arcHUB Smart Cities device that measures multiple data types that are useful for the…
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Solar Charging Improvements
Powering Telemetry A big issue in the world of the Internet of Things, or IoT as it is abbreviated, is how to get power to remote devices. And this splits up into two separate but definitely related problems: the power source the power consumption Obviously, if the power consumption is high, the power source…
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Electronex 2017
Electronex Electronex is the Australian Electronics Manufacturing industry annual expo. This year it is at the Melbourne Park Function Centre from Wednesday 6 to Thursday 7 September 2017. You can see all the details at Electronex. SMCBA In parallel the SMCBA (Surface Mount & Circuit Board Association) is running their annual conference. This year the…