Major Milestone for Saab’s Multifunction Console
Applidyne would like to extend congratulations to Saab for having their 100ᵗʰ Multi-Function Console (MFC) ready for export.
Applidyne Build Your Dream Design Competition
If you’re always dreaming about the next thing that you want to build, then this is for you! Open to engineering students and early-stage practising design engineers, this competition may give you the chance to build your dream project! You will receive up to $10,000 for approved expenses over a...
Manufacturing Engineer Position—Tow Guardian
We are looking for an experienced manufacturing engineer with experience in component procurement, QC and the development and maintenance of manufacturing equipment and facilities for volume production of complex products involving at least one of: Injection moulded parts PCBs Castings Machined...
Mechanical Design Engineer Position
We are looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer with higher-level tertiary qualifications in Mechanical Engineering or a similar related discipline. Additional qualifications in complementary areas would be well regarded. Person specification: Experience in a detail design role. Proven ability to...
Throwback to Our Riderless Bike Project
When pigs fly or when bikes ride… on their own! Ever wondered what it’d look like? In this project, we were able to make this a reality!
Manufacturing Engineer Position
We are looking for an experienced manufacturing engineer with experience in component procurement, QC and the development and maintenance of manufacturing equipment and facilities for volume production of complex products involving at least one of: Injection moulded parts PCBs Castings Machined...
2025 Applidyne Christmas Closure
Many thanks to all our clients and suppliers for your continued support for us this year! Our offices will be closing for Christmas from the end of business 24 December 2025. We will be returning on Monday 12 January 2026. We look forward to working with you in the upcoming year!
Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Breville has released the revolutionary Eye Q toaster that toasts your bread to your desired brownness level rather than toasting it for a set time. Perfect toast every time! We’re proud of the firmware and electronics we developed for this product for our client Sensability - who are very pleased...
2025 – Innovation Award Winner
Applidyne client, Red Automotive Technologies, has won the prestigious Leader in Innovation – Product Design award from the Society of Automotive Engineers – Australasia for their Tow Guardian Ultimate Towing System product. We assisted Red with the development of this product from concept through...
2025 Applidyne Mechanical Engineering Design Internship Winner – Dylan Worswick
Congratulations to our 2025 Applidyne Mechanical Engineering Design Internship winner: Dylan Worswick! We are extremely proud to be awarding Dylan with this opportunity and look forward to working with him. “Since commencing my studies in engineering and computer science at the University of...
2025 Applidyne Electronic Engineering Design Internship Winner – Areesh Amir
Congratulations to our 2025 Applidyne Electronic Engineering Design Internship winner: Areesh Amir! We are extremely proud to be awarding Areesh with this opportunity and look forward to working with him. “I’m an electrical and electronic engineering student at Curtin University with a strong...
2024 Applidyne Christmas closure
Thank you to all our clients and suppliers who have continued to support us throughout this year. Our offices will be closing at end of business, December 23rd, 2024 and we look forward to returning on January 13th, 2025. We look forward to working with you in the new year!
2024 Applidyne Engineering Design Internship Winner – Osman Hassan
Congratulations to our 2024 Applidyne Engineering Design Internship winner: Osman Hassan! We are extremely proud to be awarding Osman with this opportunity and look forward to working with him. “I’m an engineering student majoring in Mechatronics at the University of Wollongong, who has a strong...
Riderless Bike
Engineers solve problems right? All over the globe cyclists ride as much as 100km just so they can have a lycra and coffee session with their mates. That’s a problem. Spotting this, our engineers identified a solution – surely if bikes could ride themselves, they could be off riding whilst their...
2024 Internship applications are open!
The Applidyne Engineering Design Internship is open to all Australian and New Zealand University students. It is an opportunity for students in the penultimate year in a Bachelor of Engineering degree in any mechanical or electrical stream to apply their studies in real life scenarios while being...
Applidyne Enters The World of Art
Team Applidyne enters the world of art, with a 700kg harmonic bell designed by Anton Hasell and built to Applidyne FEA tuned architecture. Technical Director, Paul van de Loo, is pictured accompanying bell designer Anton Hasell and Lawrence English to The Art Gallery of South Australia for the...
SPARC Hydrogen
The next-gen green hydrogen tech we helped develop for SPARC Hydrogen, in conjunction with University of Adelaide and Flinders University, has recently showcased a successful completion of first-phase prototype on-sun testing at The CSIRO Energy Centre....
Tow Guardian Wins 2023 Safety Award
The Tow Guardian System we developed for our client Red Automotive Technologies, has beat out some seriously tough competition and gone on to win the Caravan Camping Sales 2023 Best New Safety Feature Award! Our team couldn't be more thrilled with this recognition and are excitedly working with...
Applidyne Christmas 2023
For Christmas this year, Team Applidyne hit the Bend to battle it out for the title of fastest engineer - bragging rights included. Ryan ended up taking the win, going on to post the second fastest time on the track for the month! A great day was had by all, with everyone looking forward to a well...
Felixer goes to Canberra
The feral animal grooming trap that we developed for Thylation was demonstrated to the Federal Environment Minister last week. With its new edge AI camera technology Felixer is unbeatable at discriminating targets from non-targets and is performing well in the field.
30 years of Applidyne
The Applidyne crew headed out to celebrate! After 30 years we’re still doing the same thing – working on the juiciest hardcore tech R&D, product and systems design we can get our hands on. Hard to believe all of this started in 1993! Thanks to Applidynians past and present we’ve got a track...
REMINDER: Apply for the 2023 Applidyne Internship program
We're nearly half-way to the deadline to apply for the 2023/2024 Applidyne engineering design internship. Reminder to all penultimate electrical and mechanical stream engineering students apply to ensure the opportunity to take part in our test. Applications close mid-July 2023. For application...
2023 Internship applications are open!
The Applidyne Engineering Design Internship is open to all Australian and New Zealand University students. It is an opportunity for students in the penultimate year in a Bachelor of Engineering degree in any mechanical or electrical stream to apply their studies in real life scenarios while being...
Extended ISO9001 certification for manufacturing
Our mission is to provide our clients with innovative engineering solutions to a high standard. To ensure that happens we have a comprehensive Quality Management System (QMS) to guide everything that we do. From time to time that includes low-volume production of products that we have designed....
2022 Applidyne Christmas closure
Thank you to all our clients and suppliers who have continued to support us throughout this year. Our offices will be closing at end of business, December 23rd, 2022 and we look forward to returning on January 9th, 2023. We look forward to working with you in the new year!
The 2022 Applidyne Engineering Design Internship winner!
This year’s Applidyne Engineering Design Internship has been awarded to Ferdinand Defregger. Ferdinand is in his penultimate year of a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours, majoring in Mechatronics, at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Fascinated by robotics from a young age, he came...
Felixer with AI sensing
It was great to celebrate commencement of shipments of the version 3.2 Felixer feral animal grooming trap to our client Thylation. The Felixer has revolutionised the control of feral cats and foxes in endangered animal conservation programs. Applidyne have now further developed the sensing system...
AI transported by AIR
We had to update the AI firmware on our client Thylation's Felixers undergoing trials on Kangaroo Island, so what better way to get there than by air? It’s an island after all. Our engineer and pilot Millicent Russell did a quick daytrip. The new AI camera and lidar sensing system is proving to be...
Mission Accomplished!
We’re pleased to report that Paul survived his mountain bike ride fundraiser for Operation Flinders. The pic shows the crew on the last day, and everyone is still smiling! Operation Flinders take disadvantaged youth on 8-day treks through the Flinders. Over the four days the mountain bike crew got...
2022 Internship applications are open!
The Applidyne Engineering Design Internship is open to all Australian and New Zealand University students. It is an opportunity for students in the penultimate year in a Bachelor of Engineering degree in either the Mechanical, Mechatronic, Aerospace, Automotive or other mechanical stream to apply...
We love automotive engineering!
We have been working on an exciting project for our sister company Red Automotive Technologies. Red has just broken cover with a few clues about what it is. All you caravanners out there, Red would like you to fill in their survey. They’re looking for your opinion about caravan towing safety....
Applidyne supporting STEM careers at schools
We got to show off our latest development, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system, at a recent careers night at St Ignatius College. The AI system improves the targeting accuracy of the Felixer grooming trap that we developed for our client, Thylation. The students seemed to be fascinated and...
Paul to tackle the Operation Flinders Mountain Bike Challenge for charity
Our Technical Director and founder, Paul van de Loo, has signed up to tackle this 4-day ride to raise funds for Operation Flinders. Operation Flinders do an amazing job with disadvantaged youth, helping them to get their lives back on track. Paul was a little shocked to discover that these bikes...
Adelaide Uni Motorsport Launch Night
We were honoured to attend the launch of the 2022 Formula SAE car by the Adelaide University Motorsport Team (AUMT) last night. It’s a major advance on the last car, including a new chassis and aero package. Our engineers and team alumni Ryan and Daniel posed with the car, showing off its very...
The Bradshaw Bell
Applidyne are honoured to have contributed to the installation of a bell at Adelaide Oval in memory of the late SACA chief Keith Bradshaw. The bell will be rung five minutes prior to the start of play on every Test match day. The bell is special in that it achieves almost perfect tune, as our...
Congratulations Andrew and Conor!
Our Applidyne Engineering Design Internship winners for 2021, Andrew and Conor, were awarded their monetary prizes this morning. Andrew and Conor have been hard at work on a number of projects during their first few weeks. They're learning lots and we're looking forward to working with them over...
2021 Applidyne Christmas closure
Thank you to all our clients and suppliers who have continued to support us throughout this year. Our offices will be closed from the 24th of December 2021 to the 9th of January 2022. We look forward to working with you in the new year!
ISO 9001 Certification
We’re proud to announce that we have achieved ISO 9001 certification for our Quality Management System, covering provision of engineering consultancy and product development services. We’ve run a ISO 9001 based QMS for many years but never got around to certification until now. It has been a very...
The 2021 Applidyne Engineering Design Internship winners!
This year’s Applidyne Engineering Design Internship has been jointly awarded to Andrew Wilkie and Conor Barry. Andrew is a University of Wollongong student in his penultimate year of a double degree in Mechatronic Engineering and Computer Science. His passion for building and designing things...
Applidyne Engineer recipient of The Electric Energy Society of Australia Prize
Congratulations to Applidyne’s Mechatronics Engineer and 2019 Internship winner Michael Duke who recently received an award at the UniSA 2020 Engineering Prizes and Awards Ceremony.Michael was presented with "The Electric Energy Society of Australia Prize - Final year project". This...
2021 Internship Applications are now open!
Applications for the 2021 Applidyne Engineering Design Internship are now being taken.The Applidyne Engineering Design Internship is open to all Australian and New Zealand University students. It is an opportunity for students in the penultimate year in a Bachelor of Engineering degree in either...
2020 Vision in Hindsight
Whilst 2020 will go down as a year to forget, at Applidyne there were a few highlights. One of them was the completion of our development of a new naval ship console for Saab Australia. You can read all about it here.
2020 Applidyne Christmas closure
Applidyne would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our clients and suppliers for their support during this rather turbulent 2020.Our offices will be closed from the 25th of December 2020 to the 11th of January 2021.We look forward to seeing you in the new year!
Production at Applidyne
After we completed a design upgrade on our client’s https://thylation.com Felixer product (incorporating GPS and a new user interface) we’ve been manufacturing small production runs in house. This isn’t something we normally do, but for a low-volume complex product it was the best way...