marxy's musing on technology

Messing around with a Raspberry Pi recently used as a Wifi hotspot, led me to an idea for a box installed on the projector in a meeting roo...

Sometimes it's useful to monitor traffic between a client and the server for debugging or to figure out how something works. In the past...

I'm excited to report that my build of Peter, VK3YE's , simple fixed frequency " Knobless Wonder " transceiver is complete...

The theme of today's ARNSW Home Brew group meeting was "making frequency" and we had a diverse range of approaches on show. ...

Do you remember the tradition of meeting up with friends or family, a few weeks after they'd returned from an overseas trip, to view a (...

We're coming to the end of a four week European vacation. Most of our accommodation was booked through Airbnb and I thought I'd sha...

While on tour in Europe I do miss my radio shack. Searching around I stumbled upon this interesting SDR in a box with knobs coming soon from...

I love how in Bologna in particular there are many many cyclists of all ages. The other thing that I like is that there are some very small ...

I'm not really a "foodie" but we spent a pleasant day looking at three foods made in mostly traditional ways here in Bologna. ...

The reason we chose to come to Bologna is to take a tour of the museum at the house where radio pioneer, Guglielmo Marconi spent his childho...

Normally I like to look at shoes and handbags but my wife insisted on some science content for our current tour. Galileo Galilei lived unt...