marxy's musing on technology

Just a note for others who might run in to the same issue. Freedv depends on libtiff4 which is not available for Ubuntu 14.10. Here's ho...

I've updated the iOS app WSPR Watch with support for iPad, iPhone 6 and 6+. The program is simpler than before but I think more us...

The easy solution Thanks to this post , from Greg, K17MT, here's what you do. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ki7mt/wspr # press enter ...

Accidentally purchased a little quadcopter and then found that the expensive ones have come down in price since I last looked. These videos ...

For the past eight months we've been living in an apartment and while I enjoyed learning about antennas on a balcony, it's good to ...

Here's a sneak peak: It updates itself every few minutes but I am concerned about loading wsprnet.org too much.

Great day at Dural today. Particularly impressed with the home brew moving coil compass built for a model boat. I didn't mean to but end...

A busy week, media wise. I was on RN's Download this Show: Also wrote an opinion piece about how the BitTorrent technology can be ...

I'm interested in playing with some of the new virtualisation technologies, such as docker. For this stuff my usual go to toy, the Raspb...

Today was "balun day" which began with breakfast followed by a terrific talk from Mark, VK2XOF, about the theory and practice of b...

Up here on the 28th floor it was pretty windy today. The doppler wind radar looked pretty interesting. RNDSUP seems like a fun techno...

We're videoing radio again this week. Here we are in the Radio National studio talking about technology. Exciting news for people w...

I recently purchased an old crystal controlled Codan lunchbox radio and want to put it on 40 and 80m so I've found a rather nice DDS VFO...

I'm in San Francisco this week for the Apple WWDC. The flat I'm sharing has apparently typical broadband. It certainly seems very sn...

This appeared in the lift last week. Most interesting. I'll have to avoid raucous laughter and talking over other people.

There have been rumours for  years that Apple is working on ARM based computers with keyboards, after all the phones and tablets are alre...

I've just received an Intel Galileo board and am starting getting to know it. In the past I've used Arduino s for low level hardware...

Dave, VK3ASE, is a prolific video maker. Recently the quality of his work is extremely good. For a taste, check out this story about a Gibso...

A while back I bought a Samsung Chromebook , the one that runs a non-Intel ARM processor. I see they are AU$320 and work nicely as a low cos...