marxy's musing on technology

Beloved next door neighbour Hansen Yee aged just 82 has died. Hansen was charming, modest and clearly intelligent. He was Associate Professo...

The " Cheap Yellow Display " boards are a low cost board with an ESP32, a colour touch screen and a bunch of other useful I/O. I...

I hand down my old laptops and phones to the kids who happily use them for years. Sometimes I try to hand down an update and are met with re...

For more than a year many web sites have reported a dramatic decline in traffic, pointing to a broader structural change in how the web is b...

Paul is an inspiring QRP home brewer. Great interview on a recent podcast.  https://youtu.be/Rkd1o2PQI9M?si=gzKmEFHAueIDsdYK Recommended.

As you might guess, I'm really getting in to using the Raspberry Pi PICO for embedded development. If I can do a job in MicroPython I wi...

Before the days of FreeDV RADE (which uses multiple machine learning models to turn speech to features, transmit data over HF, and turn the...