marxy's musing on technology

Just built a nifty little kit, the Pixie 2 from KennComm , a company that sells some very interesting bits and pieces.. A nice little kit, ...

Ever since I attended a workshop on stepper motors at Dural conducted by Peter VK2EMU I've been watching for the site of an inkjet print...

In this episode we chat about: Ben's Time Capsule experience OmniFocus 1.0.1 review Safari 3.1 Bicycle news from Ben (he didn't get ...

Here's a simple sine wave audio generator. It generates a nice looking, and sounding sine wave by using a resistor A/D converter connect...

There's a lot of interest in ham radio circles around the new DDS chips which can act as a high stability VFO over a wide range with ver...

Baby steps here folks. I've just got my Atmel ATMega8 to drive an HD44780 LCD using the 4 bit parallel interface. (Previously I've b...

iPhone 2.0 This week we talk about: About the podcast Change of name? Suggestions and Feedback? Perhaps we shou...

99% of my Ham radio activity is now on PSK-31. This interesting mode is very efficient and lets me chat, keyboard to keyboard, with interest...

Over the past year, I've given up on the PIC micros and have been getting up to speed with the AVR ATMega processors. My favourite is th...

A sequence of computer hand-me-downs here left us with an old PowerPC iBook with no owner. Leopard won't run on it and I'm so in to ...

I had the great pleasure of attending a seminar presented by the author of one of my favourite photo web sites, the Luminous-Landscape . Des...

This weekend is the North Shore Railway Modeller's Association 36th Model Railway Exhibition at Forestville. I always enjoy these shows ...

I've heard about the amateur satellites for years but never tried to listen in. I guess my assumption was that a directional tracking an...

Saw this little FM transmitter for the broadcast band on the Make Blog . I often want to listen to the Sunday ham radio broadcast but it wo...

WiFi Balloons! This week we talk about: Microsoft opening up? They’ve published the file formats for Office documents Now they’ve publishe...

I ordered the PSK-20 kit, a PSK31 crystal locked transceiver for 14.070Mhz (the most active spot for PSK31) from SmallWonderLabs back in Oc...

An exciting day! I've just received my first ever payment from Google for AdSense revenue from my blog. Oh sure, it's only $12 but i...

A New Trend in Openness. This week we chat about: Follow up HFS: The Good & The Bad No More Tasting: It’s a Bad Year To Be a Registrar X...

Just returned from another excellent Wyong field day. I'm sure attendance is going up again - despite a rather threatening sky. This yea...

I'm using a laptop at work and have been searching the shops for some contraption to lift the laptop up so the screen is at eye height (...