Innovation, Industry, Opinion
Steven Garlinge
Bad Pizza

KODA started thinking about how often we've been delivered "bad pizza" in our professional lives, in our careers, and on our projects...and decides to call Customer Service for some clarification.

Bad Pizza
Reminiscing
Steven Garlinge
Making it Look Easy

A great effort by the Geodata KODA team in the last month prompts this blog post. For the previous two weekends we've had extra-curricula outings in which we've achieved some great things. Some days it's easy to overlook our achievements - not today

Making it Look Easy
KODA News, Reminiscing, Software, Innovation
Steven Garlinge
Roadheader the 13th

You know you're working in an interesting industry when the currents of the week push you to spend a couple of late night hours searching for some 'standard' dimensions for humans to try to justify the placement of a datalogger in a certain location on site.

Roadheader the 13th
Steven Garlinge
The Tansley Effect

As a repeat reader of Frank Herbert's Dune, I've found myself intrigued by a particular phrase written towards the end of the book.

I think that the phrase intrigued me because I'd never heard of it before... A rather trivial reason for liking a statement, I know, but I think there is something more to it...

The Tansley Effect
Innovation, Reminiscing, Techniques
Steven Garlinge
Technique Trumps Technology

Sitting here at MeatStock, doing the dawn shift, lighting the fire and tending to our 30 day dry aged briskets I'd just laid down, I started thinking about all the different ways I could apply what I do at work to cooking a great brisket. Was this madness? Or worth the musing?

Technique Trumps Technology

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Children of the Magenta - The Automation Paradox

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Children of the Magenta - The Automation Paradox

While road tripping across the Southwest of the United States I stumbled across a great podcast by 99% Invisible. 'The Children of the Magenta' discussed the problems which occur with increasing levels of automation in the airline industry. KODA started thinking about how that might relate to the navigation system industry - and where we are headed with that.

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Roll with the Pitches

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Roll with the Pitches

Euler Rotations
Whether it’s a roadheader, rockbolter, excavator or TBM, one of the fundamental components on any navigation/guidance system is the dual-axis level sensor located on the main body of the machine. The purpose is obvious: to correct the calibrated coordinate system of the machine to the gravity system. But you need to be careful about a few things…

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KODA IS ALIVE

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KODA IS ALIVE

We’re starting small, but thinking big – better than the other way around…

Based in Austin Texas, KODA (KODA Engineering LLC) is tapping into a wealth of talent in IT and technology. From here we’re planning to service the US and Global markets.

The options seem endless, and each day we talk to the industry we get more and more excited. Some inspire us. Some make us ask: “Why haven’t we thought of that before?” Some are...