Robbie Fernwell

The Melbourne Space Program is a non-profit initiative by the University of Melbourne, providing students with a platform to flex their science, engineering, and business skills through real-world applications. MSP develops satellites, humanoids, and other amazing robotics. As part of their marketing team, I helped to ideate and execute social media campaigns, newsletters, and other content, while researching and engaging with professionals within the space industry.

Rude House: Homes that don't suck

Middle finger door knockers come standard.

In a modern world where haste often overshadows meaning, Yoreh encourages moving with purpose. Our motto, "Art of Intent," is itself a very intentional affirmation for artists – and those who are emboldened by artists.

Varda Space Industries is carving out a unique niche. The company is on a mission to build the world's first commercial microgravity industrial park at scale.

The company's spacecraft serves as a manufacturing hub in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), leveraging its microgravity environment to produce a wide range of pharmaceutical compounds that, once created, are brought back to Earth using autonomous reentry capsules.

This innovative approach offers a novel environment for processing materials that is simply not possible on Earth.

Emesent is a world-leader in drone autonomy, LiDAR mapping, and related 3D data processing. They help clients make better operational decisions about challenging and seemingly unreachable places through the autonomous digitalisation of these harsh environments.

As part of their digimag campaign with Mine Australia, I curated a series of LinkedIn posts.

The Astra Program has teams publish three white papers every year, which authors present to Australia space industry stakeholders. Team Casuarina was tasked with creating a white paper with recommendations to deliver to Government and Industry on the topic of 'Resilience in Australian Critical Space Infrastructure' (CSI).

New, mysterious technologies are a blank canvas for us to project both our greatest hopes and our worst fears.

AI WILL BECOME UBIQUITOUS, IS THAT A GIFT OR A CURSE?

From extending our capabilities and creating our Utopia, to being an existential risk to civilization, opinions on the best and worst of AI couldn’t be further apart.

As the technology becomes more engrained in our society, many have vocalised concerns that reliance on AI will reduce our need to think for ourselves and lead to the dumbing down of us humans (‘Homo sapiens’ being derived from ‘Human’ & ‘Wise’ for those who enjoy irony).

But this all sounds very familiar…

Many inventions throughout history were forecast to undermine our intelligence and impact culture.

KOKOPOD was born out of a Brisbane girl’s obsession with European chocolate and her desire to share with family and friends the finest quality chocolate not available in Australian stores.

At just 16 years old on an exchange to Germany, her host father worked for a worldwide commercial chocolate company and Brigid couldn’t believe the chocolate supplies stored in their kitchen cupboards! There were even slices of chocolate purposefully made to fit a slice of toast.

Needless to say, her suitcase returning home was packed with 16kg of chocolate.