Sure. Lots of companies, big and small, don't survive their founder generation.
One company survival strategy is to find and hire and mentor some really smart kids. That's fun too. I'm making three ee-senior capstone project pitches this month. I've got a team of five brilliant seniors ready to go on one already.
You could get involved in a local university.
Now *that* is funny.
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The customer specified 200 seconds. They are a government organization that has a very pickey safety review team.
I want it really dead in well under 200 seconds, below 1 volt.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics
2.4 KJ is about 16 firecrackers or five .45 cal bullets worth of bang.
People would notice if that were shorted.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I'm active on the NSW IEEE section committee. That puts me in contact IEEE members (including professors and lecturers) at the local universities. Maquarie and UTS figure largely at the moment, but Western Sydney (where my late wife was was a distinguished professor) is also pretty active . The University of NSW has gone quiet for now. I got to see their quantum computer up close once, but that was through the Royal Society of NSW - I got dragged in when my wife got to be a fellow of the Royal Society of London (which is a much bigger deal) but I've not done much with them since she died.
The quantum computer tour was sort of funny - I went around with the then chair of Royal Australian Chemical Society of which I'm also a life member (if never a very active one) whom I'd met earlier.
Like I said, your judgement in such matters isn't great. Rowan Atkinson gave up a masters in electronics at Cambridge to pursue a career in comedy. I did have some involvement in student theatre at the University of Melbourne, and was sort of okay, but nowhere near good enough to take it seriously.
Quicker is safer.
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