Category: Engineering & Technology

  • 2026 Tech Predictions

    2026 Technology Predictions Each year IEEE Spectrum publish their technology predictions for the year. You don’t have to be an IEEE member but you do need to register to freely access the content. If you aren’t familiar with IEEE it is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the…

  • Ray Keefe: IEEE Senior Life Member

    IEEE Senior Life Member I recently received a letter from IEEE informing me that I had been awarded an IEEE Life Senior Member in recognition of my many years of loyal membership and support of activities of IEEE. And included this certificate. This was not something I was expecting and…

  • Podcast with an Engineer

    Ray Keefe on Australia’s Advanced Manufacturing Edge Rick Merten of InsideOut Group has an Engineering Success podcast series.We did an interview together and the results were amazing. One of the best one-on-one interviews I’ve ever had. You Can’t Design a Solution to a Problem You Don’t Understand: Ray Keefe, Successful…

  • Halocell – Australian Photovoltaics Just Got Better

    Halocell and Photovoltaics Photovoltaics is quite a mouthful. But you already know them as Solar Panels and Solar Cells. But I deliberately went away from using those terms because of what it immediately conjures to mind. In practice, Photovoltaic = anything that takes Light (photons) and turns that into a…

  • Fixing WiFi’s biggest weaknesses

    So what is wrong with WiFi? WiFi has been a brilliant success story. CSIRO invention, near ubiquitous uptake for commercial and private use and a daily part of our lives. But it does have some drawbacks: high power consumption for battery based systems range, especially with walls or trees in…

  • IEEE Technology Predictions 2025

    IEEE Technology Predictions Each year IEEE put together their technology predictions. This is in addition to the intriguing engineering feats we listed in 2025 is a year of promise. You can get a copy of the full report at 2025 Technology Predictions Report. I’m going to focus on the technology…

  • AI Ethics

    AI Ethics Development Prescient Science Fiction author,  Isaac Asimov, wrote his 3 laws of Robotics in 1942 as part of a short story “Runaround”. Later they became a core part of the “I Robot” collection of stories. And holding steady to this day. A great example of well thought out…

  • 2025 is a year of promise

    2025 stepping up The start of a new year might be an arbitrary moment in time but it instills a sense of things moving forward. There are still plenty of problems to solve and opportunities that come from those solutions and we are choosing to look at 2025 through that…

  • ChatGPT isn’t AI

    ChatGPT isn’t AI – how is that possible AI or Artificial Intelligence has a been a big deal in several phases. The 1960s saw the rise of the first round which ended with the conclusion that it was harder than we thought and we didn’t yet have the tools or…

  • Renewable Energy Progress 2023

    Renewable Energy Regardless of where you sit on the climate crisis versus beat up continuum, generating renewable energy that doesn’t continue to create pollution post manufacture has a lot of merit. So where are we at now that it is 2023 and we are green house gas looking at pollution…