This is the second of a post in which we are looking at how to construct your own infrared light source from a commercially available kit.  Below is a picture of the completed infrared light source we are about to make.  It has 140 x 850nm infrared LEDs.  As described in part 1 of this […]

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Well I have had another week of Forex trading and it was even crazier than the first week.  To start with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was due to announce changes to the interest rate this week so last Friday (28th November, 2008) I sold a heap of AUD/USD.  For some reason whenever the RBA […]

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For this post I would like to have a look a little bit at Forex trading.  Chances are anyone who finds this post will already know about it, but for those who don’t Forex trading is the trading of foreign currencies.  All of that stuff you see on the news about how much the dollar […]

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Wow, it has been a long time since I last posted!  Well, what has been a very busy uni year is over now, so I will try my very best to post a bit more frequently, at least until the next academic year starts!!  To kick off I thought I would describe how to put […]

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Once again it has been a while since my last post, so I thought I would fix that by posting this, but also take the opportunity to explain why. As a research scientist, information is my stock-in-trade. We are good at searching for information, analysing information and/or creating information. Information is what we do. So […]

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It has been a little while since I made a post, having struck a busy patch at work (I am setting up my research lab at the University of Sydney) I have been flat out for the last couple of weeks. To fix that I decided to make a quick post today to try to […]

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Over our lives we all have to handle money at various times and in varying amounts. My first job was a paper round, delivering the Herald-Sun around the suburb where I grew up in Geelong, Victoria. For doing this 6 days a week I got the princely sum of $10. Each week I would then […]

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In order to get the AEReS project off the ground I need to get to $20 million. As I currently have zero dollars I have to necessarily start off small. When I was looking into business loans a couple of years ago I was told by the commonwealth bank that in order to obtain a […]

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In order to get the AEReS project underway I wanted to set up this blog, and for that I wanted to register my own .com.au domain name. I did a search online for a decently priced registry service, but then in the process of signing up there was a point where I had to enter […]

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There I have finally worked out the ins and outs of this blogging business and so am officially opening this Blog. I am still learning the coding of these pages but I can pick that up as I go along. I have written an introduction on the “About Page” which explains the reasoning behind this […]

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