NSW Girl Geek Coffee Meet-up happening soon......3 May

Fancy a technology meetup with women in IT and Engineering over a good cup of coffee (or tea, chai, etc.)?We wanna see as many UTS women attending as possible :-)  NSW girl geek coffees are holding our first meetup of 2012 at Envoy Advanced Technologies - a growing Australian software and web development startup that already has clients such as Jetabroad, Spirit of Tasmania, Blindsonline.com.au and Lovelinks by Pastiche. ...

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Rear Seat Development Part 2

In the first part of this blog post I mentioned what the various features and design goals we had for the new rear seat. Once those design goals were set, we then began the design process in earnest. We had design engineers determining the various features and locations working closely with the structural analysis engineers who were sizing...

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Fluid Level Sensing

It came to my attention that I haven't updated everyone on the status of fluid level sensing since last summer. As I have mentioned in previous posts, we did a lot of testing of a "segmented" fluid level sender to help increase our reliability for both TKS level sensing and fuel level sensing.Starting in December of 2010 we began installing...

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Sydney Geek Girl Dinner - April 2012

With a name like The Altassian and a location on Sussex Street I was expecting an upmarket bar overlooking the water, but as I was welcomed into the lower ground floor of a company which informally lists its purpose as ‘creating useful products people lust after’ and values such as ‘open company, no bullsh!t’. I was not disappointed. Pizza...

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Pressure Sensor Experiments

One of the frustrating aspects of trying to solve the problems with the erratic pressure sensors is that it doesn't happen all the time, and we seem to have well behaved airplanes in our own fleet, so nothing to experiment on. That changed a couple of weeks ago when we got access to a customer airplane that was having issues with oil...

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