The Inventors Association of Australia (Victoria) 30 Reids Lane Warranwood Vic 3134 HOTLINE: Ph 0421 767 790 . Web: www.inventorvic.com.au Email: mandrgroup@optusnet.com.au

Wed 5th October 2011 6.30 pm

45 Miller Crescent Mount Waverley

IAA Competition

Debbie Dash

IDEAS CLUB ( BENDIGO )

IAA Competition

Norm Ladson

Patent Tutorial

Stephen Anderson Morcom Pernat

Guest speaker Dr Les Spencer from James Cook Univer-

sity will speak on the theme: ‘Innovating Tools & the Illusive Obvious’

Guest Speaker Kathy Pavlou

Young Inventors Association Program

MEDIA RELEASE 5SEPTEMBER 2011

CARBON FIBRE INNOVATION WINS YOUNG INVENTOR OF THE YEAR

Year 12 Bendigo Senior Secondary student Bronte McDonald was announced the first ever Bendigo Young Inventor of the Year at the Discovery Centre on Friday 2 September, before a crowd of school students from Catholic College, Bendigo Senior and Castle-maine Secondary Schools.Bronte’s innovative Carbon Fibre Wheels wowed the Bendigo Inven-tor Award Judges to win the Youth prize of $2,000 cash and a mentoring support package. The Bendigo Inventor Awards joined forces with the Discovery Centre to announce the winner of the Young Inventor Award at a special secon-dary schools event, prior to the main Exhibition and Awards Ceremony at the Bendigo Town Hall on Friday evening. The City of Greater Bendigo’s youngest Councillor, James Reade,was Master of Ceremonies for the event and was excited to see some of the great ideas put forward. “Bronte has developed an innovative new form of carbon fibre wheels for human powered vehicles,” said Cr Reade. “She is a great example of the visionary young people we have here in Bendigo, who not only come up with great ideas, but can put them into action.”

Executive Officer of the Bendigo Schools Trade Training

Centre, Russell Johnson, commended Bronte on her skills

and passion for inventing.

“Bronte began development of her wheels in Year 11 as a

project in a Design and Technology class. The new equip-

ment at the Park Road Trade Training Centre allowed Bronte

to use the latest technology, to design and manufacture, test

and develop her wheels that have been used by her class-

mates in events such as the RACV Energy Breakthrough,”

explained Mr Johnson.

Bronte’s teachers at Bendigo Senior Secondary Collegewere delightedthat her hard work has been recog-

nised.

“Bronte had a vision and the determination to put this into practice - proving that young people can do

amazing things. There is a strong future for those students choosing Design and Technology in their VCE

and Bronte exemplifies this!” explainedDaryl King, Design Teacher and Tim White, Technology Teaching

and Learning Coordinator.

Bronte is thrilled with her win and hopes to put her skills to use when she starts a Nursing Orthotics and

Prosthetics Degree next year.

“I love machining and design and using lots of materials. Designing my wheels has been challenging but I

have learnt a lot about processes and materials,” she said.

Among the other entries in the Young Inventor Awardwerea remote control finder and a software program

for gaming.

Special guest ABC TV’s New Inventors Show Judge Chris Russell announced the winner and presented certificates to entrants.

Chris is a regular fixture on ABC TV’s New Inventors Show and has spent the past 30 years working all over the world on agricultural and engineering projects. Hespoke to students from the Bendigo Schools Trade Training Centre consortium and Castlemaine Secondary students about how his love of science has taken him around the world and how students can turn their ideas into a future career.

Media contact: Carolyn Stanford 0409 132 171 or email carolyn@stanfordmarketing.com.au

To interview Bronte McDonald – phone 0439 048235 or email - mcdonfam@iinet.net.au

MEDIA RELEASE5September 2011

PLUMBERS TOOL AND FIRE MASK WIN 2011 BENDIGO INVENTOR AWARDS

A young plumber from Cohuna has taken out the $10,000 prize as Bendigo’s Inventor of the Year at a gala ceremony at the Bendigo Town Hall on Friday night.He was joined by a Mandurangfirefighterwhose in-novative use of reusable materials in an air mask has earned him $10,000 and the title of Innovator of the Year.

The Awards Ceremonyattracted a capacity crowd of more than 400 people from across Victoria. The winners in the five categories were:

Inventor of the Year $10,000 – Precise Un-derslab Tool, Paul Reid of Cohuna.

A tool to make plumbing underslab easier, quicker and more precise – saving time and money on the building site.

Innovator of the Year$10,000 - Fair Air Fire Mask, Mike Taylor of Man-durang. A reusable mask designed to be used in bushfire fighting. Technology Award $2,000 – Over7 Waste Heat Recovery System, Frank Will of Jan Juc. A modification to the engine lubrication system that reduces the frictional losses of engines by redirecting exhaust heat and by increasing the heat transfer into the engine oil. The system achieves fuel consumption reductions of over 7% and emission reductions of up to 27% over the legal drive-cycle. Young Inventor of the Year (18 years and under) $2,000 – Carbon Fibre

Wheels, Bronte McDonald, Bendigo. Year 12 student Bronte McDonald has designed and developed carbon fibre wheels for a human powered vehicle, made with

a foam core and machined aluminium hub. People’s Choice Award $1,000 – guests at the Exhibition and Awards Ceremony voted for their favourite display,

with the Award going to Graeme Witney of Bendigo for his “Artificial Intelligence engine” for a robot.

Prize vouchers were awarded to finalists who received a certificate of special mention, including:

Shane Bartlett’s “The Universal Trailer”, to help around the farm

Anthony Favero’s “PROTAP”, for tapping into water pipes for service connections

“Smile-S-Ling”, originally developed by Christine Carty of Goornoong for her son’s broken arm

“Weepguard”, a weep hole barrier used in brickwork, owned by Anthony Malborough,and

PLIESE Learning Tool, developed by Girton teacher Nigel Vernon

The Awards were announced by City of Greater Bendigo Mayor, Cr Rod Fyffe.

“What a fantastic event for Bendigo!” said Cr Fyffe.

“It is great to see so many of the great ideas and inventions that the Awards have uncovered here on display. This event really has showcased Bendigo as ‘A Thinking City’ to the rest of the world”, said Cr Rod Fyffe.

Media contact: Carolyn Stanford 0409 132 171 or email carolyn@stanfordmarketing.com.au

See next page for winners list and contact details

Winner Contact details

Inventor of the Year Precise Underslab Tool

Paul Reid 0428 562574 psereid@bigpond.com

Innovator of the Year Fair Air Fire Mask

Mike Taylor 0411 121687 danetaylortech@bigpond.com

Technology Award Over7 Waste Heat Recovery System

Frank Will 0402 904293 frank.will@deakin.edu.au

Young Inventor of the Year Carbon Fibre Wheels

Bronte McDonald 0439 048235 mcdonfam@iinet.net.au

People’s Choice Award Artificial Intelligence Engine

Graeme Witney 0407 687 338

From the President I thought last month we had a very busy meeting, but September proved to be yet another ‘packed to the rafters’ evening. Our members are a very friendly bunch of women and men. It is great to catch up with them at networking and supper time. Whilst I didn’t get to speak to all of them, the visitors I did manage to speak to thought the evening was nothing short of fantastic! I am very pleased to report this to our mem-bers and readers of our IAA Vic monthly newsletter. We were unable to have Problem Corner this month due to the time shortage on the night. Buzz Cousins is still not well enough to attend the meeting to ‘help solve our problems.’ Buzz normally runs this segment of the meeting. We continue to wish him well in his recovery and miss his wisdom and smiling face! This month the IAA Vic hotline received many calls inquiring about our Association which has obviously led to the high number of visitors. We receive calls from all over Australia with inventors looking for help. We enjoyed the company of 9 visitors this month and got to know a little about them at networking time & over supper. I am confident they were made welcome by our members and look forward to meeting with them again in the near future. We had two of our members introduce their inventions in the IAA Vic Monthly Competition. The inven-tions/innovations shown to members in this competition serve a couple of purposes. Firstly, it gives the inventor a forum to ‘practice’ public speaking for when the time comes to introduce their product to mar-keters, entrepreneurs, or even speaking to prospective customers. Secondly, it’s an opportunity to win the overall competition. Frank Bishop has donated a perpetual trophy for the winner and of course, each com-petitor will receive a certificate of participation at our Christmas Dinner in December. Jack Kerin and Mo-tus Board Game and Bill Cooper with his STABALAD ready to go, stand anywhere ladder were our com-petitors this month. Ray, Ron, Debbie & Isabelle (IAA Vic representative of the Young Inventors Association) attended the Bendigo Inventor Awards on Friday 2nd September representing the Committee and members of the In-ventors Association of Australia Vic. We were there supporting not only our members that entered the Bendigo Inventor Awards, and those members who were selected as finalists, but the entire event. The Awards Ceremony attracted a capacity crowd of more than 400 people from across Victoria. The event finished the year with a gala ceremony at the Bendigo Town Hall on Friday night. It was a fabulous event and we enjoyed our day enormously. Anthony Favero’s “PROTAP”, for tapping into water pipes for ser-vice connections and “Weepguard”, a weep hole barrier used in brickwork, owned by Anthony Malbor-ough were finalists from our Association. Well done guys! Danielle Reardon not only attended the Awards in Bendigo with us but has kindly responded to our gen-eral call for help on meeting nights. Danielle has kindly offered her talents of photography so as to help contribute to our newsletter. This will be a great help, especially for Ray. When Danielle is able to attend the meetings, she will have her camera in tow!

Patent Attorney Warren Chandler was our guest Patent Attorney this month. Before Warren for-mally began his presenta-tion, Ray began discussing ‘secret invention/men’s business’ with him. (Warren is so patient!) Ray finally gave Warren per-mission to proceed by stat-ing this is enough of this (hrrmmm)! Ray is hilarious and he does love to make jokes and enjoy himself! I’m not so sure everyone gets his jokes though…After the jokes etc were over, Warren was able to discuss the business of Patents and Trade Marks, busily interacting with our members and an-swering many questions. One of the main benefits of joining the IAA Vic to our members is the hour voluntarily given by the guest Patent Attorney in our monthly meeting. They give our mem-bers valuable information within the Tutorials. We often find that the members or visitors who ask questions, others are thinking of asking the same question/s but a bit too shy to ask. We have a great team of Attorney’s on our roster. Their participation in our meetings in invaluable! Warren Chandler is a Trade Marks and Patent Attorney in the Intellectual Property & Technology team at Mills Oakley Lawyers. Prior to joining Mills Oakley, Warren spent eight years with the Australian Patent Office as an Examiner of Patents and seven years at the Commonwealth Scien-tific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). While Warren was working at the Patents Office, he examined patent applications predominantly in the areas of applied chemistry and medical and food technologies. When working at the CSIRO, Warren worked with the Division of Applied Or-ganic Chemistry (later Chemicals and Polymers) for one year, then for another six years in the Division of Animal Production – Controlled Release of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals. Warren has significant experience and expertise in advising of patents, trademarks and designs including: Patent infringement and validity advice including interpretation of patent specifications and validity assessment. Warren has expertise in preparing, filing and prosecuting patent, trademark and de-sign applications in Australia and internationally, Patent and Trademark oppositions, patent re-examinations, revocation actions and trademark non-use proceedings. Warren’s expertise in-cludes conducting IP due diligence and audits, advising clients on appropriate strategies for man-aging and protecting his clients Intellectual Property. Warren is more than qualified to help you with drafting a patent application. I looked up Warren’s website to discover that Warren has many professional qualifications. Thank you Warren, for another great presentation for our members and visitors. Please do not hesitate in contacting Warren on contact details below for any information regard-ing Patents or Trade Mark’s, or to follow up with the discussions of the meeting. Mills Oakley Level 6, 530 Collins St Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Warren Chandler T: 03 9605 0971 F: 03 9605 0933 E: wchandler@millsoakley.com.au W: www.millsoakley.com.au

Guest Speaker This month, we had the pleasure of introducing Bruce Jackson from New Zealand demonstrating the ‘Affordable Desktop 3D Printer Systems’ Bruce lives in Auckland, New Zealand (originally from South Africa) and arrived in Melbourne for our meeting at 3.30am on Wednesday 7th to personally demonstrate the 3D machine we had purchased for our members a couple of months ago. Bruce began his presentation by handing out ‘Executive Toys’ that the machine is capable of making. It was a little ‘fizzler’, (two pieces of plastic that screwed together to make one piece) costing approx 8c to manufacture. This 3D printing technology has been around for 20 years Bruce explained. Bruce designed this machine last November and had it made in China. The printer is currently selling very well. Bruce initially started marketing the 3D printer to the hobbyist market and the education sector. Primary Schools are being targeted. There is a great program for the kids. Bruce has visited the national manufacturing event and commercial shows and has received great feedback on the 3D printer from these events. Bruce had arrived early enough to program the machine with a demonstration ‘bunny rabbit’ being made, layer by layer as his demonstration model which was included in his presentation for the evening. The rabbit had been in progress for approximately 45 minutes when Bruce had begun his presentation and the rabbit would have about 266 layers to be-come a finished piece. Bruce showed us the struts that were near his ears and explained this is was needed to hold his head in place while the medium was still warm and are simply removed to ‘clean’ the prototype. They will just break away. Depending on the design, struts are needed to support the material. Bruce explained how support is needed if the degrees vary. How the 3D printer works is that filament, a roll costing approx $59 feeds through the tube like a hot glue gun and pro-ceeds to create the object layer upon layer. The platform or base of the machine needs to be warmed evenly for the object to remain stable. (We found that out by experience). The machine keeps layering the filament automatically, fol-lowing the 3D drawings specifications, until completed. ‘The cost of the 3D printer machines has reduced in the last 23 years yet in terms of growth; we’ve seen 26% growth. In the last 2 years, we have seen an astonishing sales growth of up to 24%’ said Bruce. What materials can be used for printing? Latex, wax, chocolate, plastic, filament, there are quite a lot of different mate-rials that can be used today for printing. ‘It is just amazing to see what is being made available that can be used.’ said Bruce. 3D printing is an excellent way to prototype your product. Electrolux in Sydney, Air New Zealand, large compa-nies and primary schools are using our 3D printers just to name a few. Bruce said that it’s like creating a word document and it prints out the design on your printer. It’s really that simple says Bruce. Bruce showed us a video clip of a guy dragging his Solar Sinter and a 3D printer out in the Sahara Desert and positioning it ‘just so.’ There are different techniques of printing and this was an infused depositioning modelling, by using and adding a layer of sand each time the printer goes around. This machine was printing (producing) a glass vase in the Sahara Desert which was amazing to watch. The sand was just melting with the heat before your eyes. The colours were beautiful. The operator just keeps adding another layer on top of the previous layer until there are enough layers. The machine produces the shape via the 3D drawing. When it’s finished, the operator just dug around in the sand (the object was in a box and was filled with sand) and continues digging and removing the sand from around and inside the vase. Before your eyes, the operator is holding the vase the machine has just printed. This video was made about 4 months ago said Bruce. The machines can take human cells and ‘print’ them, even using standard inject printers to do this. Lots of Colleges and Universities around the world are doing this. Bruce showed how, on his video demonstration, a kidney was being produced. These printed kidney structures are early prototypes that are being studied experimentally. You could clearly see the demonstrator in the video clip holding a pliable ‘kidney’ in his hand. ‘Cells can be taken and are creating excit-ing printing cells technology today’ said Bruce. Please order the DVD through Ray for more of this very interesting technology that Bruce was either demonstrating or showing us on his video clips. Ray said that if anyone has a larger prototype that wants to be made using this technol-ogy, it can be made to scale..Please contact Ray (03) 9786 5658 at his factory. Please Note: this is a member only benefit. Thank you Bruce for a very interesting and informative presentation and especially for coming all the way from New Zealand to demonstrate the machine we have re-cently purchased. For more information on the 3D Desktop Printer, please phone Bruce. Bruce Jackson 3D Desktop Printing E: bruce@3dprinting.co.nz Australia: +61 (0) 3 9099 0225 New Zealand: +64 (0) 9281 4206 Mobile: +64 (0) 21 2617 242

IAA Vic Member Competition

This month we had both Jack Kerin and Bill Cooper demonstrating their inventions.

Jack began his presentation with describing his board game Motus.

Bill Cooper demonstrated his STABALADTM that has a slogan ‘every ladder should have one’ by quickly attaching his stabiliz-ing legs to the two ladders he had brought to the meeting. Bills ladder stabilizer is a new concept in ladder stability. This product has been designed to improve ladder stability and reducing the problem of sideways instability. Bill’s ladder reduces the possibil-ity of the feet slipping off the rungs and backward over-balancing. There are many dangers involved in ladder climbing and Bill’s ladder stabilizer certainly appears to overcome those dangers.

Attaching the stabilizers only takes a few seconds. They are easily at-tached to long extension ladders and improve the stability on step lad-ders. Multiple stabilizers can be fitted if required.

STABALADTM consists of two long-length adjustable stabilizing legs, one on either side of the ladder. These are connected by a support bar that passes either through a rung on the ladder, or is fastened securely to the ladder. This makes it possible to fit STABALADTM to almost any type of ladder.

STABALADTM features a spring loaded foot socket attached to the lower end of each stabilizing leg, allowing it to maintain its positioning on the ground without the need for strutting. Bills ladder can be stored on the roof of the car in a foldaway carrying position, ready to go! This product is great for the handyman on the move. Bill has a very smart brochure advertising his ladder stabilizers. Bill is hoping to find a manufacturer in China as manufacturing in Australia is expensive. Bill would consider licensing his product. Please phone or email Bill if you can help him with information re: potential manufacturers in Aus-tralia, China, and distributorship etc.

E: info@stabalad.com

P: (03) 9787 5172

Thank you Bill for a great demonstration of your STABALAD. Good luck in the competition!

Jack Kerin (JACKABUS | DESIGNUS) presented his board game Motus ‘words in motion’. Motus slogan is ‘thinking outside the pentagon TM Motus is a fun, spelling game that doesn’t require a player to be a good speller. This game is suitable for ages 8 to Adult. This board game is presented in a very professional manner. The components are top quality. Jack has gone to great expense to produce this quality product. Jack is inter-active with local schools and offered every schools visiting the Bendigo Inventor Awards exhibition a Motus board game. Jack has just informed me that there were 8 schools vis-iting the exhibition. Jack will deliver the games to those schools.

Jack is also the English Core Subject Sponsor to our Young Inventors Association program currently running with our Westpac Ringwood Sponsor Mrs. Kathy Pavlou in two primary schools in Ringwood.

Motus words in motion helps the players to think, learn and create faster. The more you play, the better your creative and lateral thinking will become says Jack. Motus is a game of strategy where players use creative thinking to collect letters while travelling around a board. The more letters the greater the opportunity to create more words. Motus cards are 50/50, as are the instructions on the board. Some will help and some may not. Jack has designed his rules brochure with clear instructions. The colours he’s chosen are primary colours and they look fantastic. There are three small boxes containing the Consonants, Vowels and Motus cards and are nicely packaged. Jack has included score sheet pads and when you run out; just print more of them off his website. Motus is a quality product that is a great board game for the family, friends or for school children ‘spelling’ in a creative way.

Jack gave our members and visitors a fantastic demonstration with such enthusiasm of his Motus board game. Motus board games can be purchased through Jack at a special price as a member benefit. This product makes a great present for children and adults alike. Email Jack for any information on Motus.

E: jackabus@bigpond.net.au

Thank you Jack for a great presentation and good luck in the competition.

Guest Speaker Debbie introduced Robert and he was warmly welcomed as our second guest speaker for the evening. Robert Wyner from Foods International Pty Ltd.

Robert gave us a little of his background of how he was ‘born’ into the food industry and just missed out being born in a bakery van when his father had his bakery busi-ness in Sydney. Robert’s career started 35 years ago in the small foods industry and had his own Gourmet Deli. Robert eventually moved from Sydney to Melbourne and worked for Twinning’s Tea as their marketing manager and then ultimately became their Company’s National Marketing Manager.

What was thought to be Gourmet Deli foods back then nowadays is seen to be every day foods/products. For example, smoked salmon, Camembert cheese, Brie, Baby Bell cheese, Twinning’s Tea to mention a few. Robert was confident that most people here at our meet-

ing enjoy these foods in their homes. Since 1993, Robert has been out on his own and developed his own marketing and Brokerage Company where he works with small and medium size businesses in their devel-opment stage and helps them get their products to the market place.

Robert was wondering how our members were thinking how his background could be relevant to inventors. ‘Launching food products is no different to trying to get an invention off the ground.’ said Robert. Robert ac-knowledged it was easy for him to say that because he had never invented anything. Robert used as an ex-ample his ‘pet subject’ Twinning’s Tea, which was a gourmet product in times past and is now a house hold staple item. Robert likened him being a food importer to an inventor. One needs to source new products and look at its attributes and evaluate the products suitability for the Australian market place. Robert needs to communicate and relate to the retailer and the consumer. Often overseas ‘products’ want to have their Aus-tralian launch with their own marketing blurb which won’t always be relevant to the Australian consumer and can sometimes be offensive to our culture. These are some of the problems Robert faces.

Robert also has to be sure that the products comply with Australian regulations for ingredients and labelling. When Robert took over as Twinning’s Marketing Manager, Twinning’s was a gourmet product only being sold in department stores like David Jones, Myers and exclusive Gourmet Deli’s and is the preferred tea for Restaurants. Robert decided to do some market research and what they discovered was quite surprising. Robert had a market share of less than 5%. The perceived market share was up to 25% - 30%. The tea con-sumers had in their pantry was Twinning’s but only used for special occasions. The challenge was ‘how to’ bring Twinning’s tea out of the panty as a ‘special occasion tea’ or ‘event tea’ and into the kitchen as an eve-ryday tea whilst maintaining that ‘special occasion’ enjoyment without losing its ‘snob value’. It wasn’t an easy thing to do in view of the state of Twinning’s management and considering Twinning’s was a premium tea compared to all its major competitors said Robert. This is where the ‘inventiveness’ came into being…they needed a new product, so what was new about tea bags? Twinning’s marketed an envelope tea bag. Robert needed to convince management that they needed to attach a string to the tea bag. This was ‘something very new to Twinning’s management at the time.’ said Robert. Twinning’s is known as the Black Tea Company, not a ‘White Tea Company’. Another thing that Robert needed to achieve was not to alienate their customers. Robert came up with a proposal for senior management and what they needed to do was to launch into the ‘100 bag tea bag’ market in their envelope with a string attached and still be a premium tea to the current tea market. They decided to launch into the Herbal Tea market at the same time. The com-pany proceeded with both tea markets, designed a new pack, re-did the ‘paper work’, shot a few TV com-mercials and now this is history. Twinning’s tea is now No. 2 Tea in the market place.

Robert continued with ‘back to inventions’… and informed us that he has found, talking with prospective cus-tomers, that often the uniqueness of the product is lost between the ‘kitchen and the factory’. Robert gave an example of how a customer came up with a Gluten Free Bread Mix that was working well in the test kitchen but failed in the factory. The customer and developer of the mix decided not to use the powder he’d used in the test kitchen and use chips in the factory mix. The powder or chips are needed for absorbing ex-cess moisture. They ended up having to scrap about 3 tonnes of product that needed to be destroyed. The customer needed to investigate where the problem lay before they could continue with production of the product.

When Robert goes and sees his Supermarket clients, the products that he handles need to be labelled cor-rectly for sale and in case of product recalls. For example ingredients need to named and be in descending order. His customers (supermarkets) need to know the % breakdowns and that the information on the la-belling is correct for the product. You need to know the Law in this regard. Robert can’t tell us how to in-vent, but hopes to give us some guidelines once you’re developed.

Robert met a woman on the flight back from Sydney and they were chatting about her Fragrant Candle business. They discovered through conversation that they had both been to the same Trade Show. This woman didn’t really know how to take her business further without a distributor. She had found one at the Trade Show and had reservations. A distributor she had lined up said that wanted her business but he also wanted her customer base (clients). Robert advised her that if she thought the Distributor was the right ‘fit’ for her, that’s fine, but don’t give up your customer base. Robert suggests that if you own Intellectual Prop-erty (IP), don’t give it up!

Robert spoke about the services he provides his customers, advises which retailer and what the retailer expects of your product. Questions need to be asked about the product standard range, or is the product both or seasonal item. What will I be charged by the retailer, trading terms and margin negotiations will be discussed. There are promotional programs to consider. The best business structure to support the product success, product suitability (Private Label or Proprietary Brand), product attributes (what sets it apart from the rest), product submissions, new product development, special event & seasonal product reviews, trad-ing term negotiations, just mentioning a few of the considerations of the processes of a product to market.

There is so much to this presentation that space does not permit in this article. Please order the DVD from Ray if you would like to hear the ‘full story’.

Thank you Robert for a very informative presentation. Contact Robert Wyner | Foods International Pty Ltd M: 0417 541 957 Skype Name: robbie.wyner E: info@foodsinternational.com.au W: www.foodsinternational.com.au

A: P.O Box 440, Elsternwick Vic 3185

Vice President Patrick reported on last month’s EzSystem workshop which was run at Monash University on 4th Au-gust. Four members from the IAA attended and ended up purchasing the kits which were available at a special workshop price.

The EzSysytem is a very easy to use product that allows people with no knowledge of electronic to be able to design, build and program PIC micro controller projects.

The EzSystem has proven so easy to use that Monash have purchased kits to be used in their Student Training Program (STP) where Monash University students (many of them are non electronic students) go out to schools and design electronic projects with primary and secondary school students. Monash mechanical engineering students are beginning to use EzSystem to control their robots that they use in their Warman robotic competition be-cause they have had enormous trouble programming using the current prod-

ucts available.

Young Engineers Australia the young division of Engineers Australia are using EzSystem for this year’s Engineering Challenge. This year schools around Australia compete to make working prototype projects that will aid a remote Aboriginal community. Some of the projects are related to water saving, sustainable energy, heating and cooling systems, power savings and other envi-ronmental and sustainable projects.

EzSystem appears to becoming such a successful and useful product that Monash University are running another workshop on Friday 16th September. This gives our members another opportunity to purchase the kits at about 1/3 of their normal price. The workshop cost $50.00 and the kits can be purchased for the low cost of $120.00 which includes lots of parts to allow many pro-jects to be completed. If you are not familiar with electronic design and microchip programming, but would like to have some sort of electronic control for your inventions, then this is probably a product that you should have a look at.

Patrick will be attending the workshop and he is more than happy to assist you and answer your questions. Patrick is available via his email pytech@onthe.net.au

ezSystem Creates Innovation

Young Engineers Victoria, Engineers without Borders and The Schools’ Technology Project present opportunity where students Working alongside a final year Monash University Engineering Student to learn the engineering problem solving process and to design solutions to real world problems such as limited energy sources, clean drinking water, sanitation and housing using the ezSystem.

Schools’ Technology Project classes at Gleneagles Secondary College .EzSystem helps develop technical knowledge as well as simulate team work and problem solving skills to student.

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