marxy's musing on technology

Graeme, VK3CDO, is a friend from the Macedon Ranges Amateur Radio Club. He often shares his knowledge of bushcraft and this weekend we heade...

This weekend I gave a talk to the Macedon Ranges Amateur Radio Club about how at least one dimension of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Le...

Today I caught a train from Southern Cross bound for Bendigo. At Footscray a man got on. He looked confused and clearly had almost no Englis...

As the world watches tensions and conflicts swell in the Middle East, what stands out is the use of technology in the military. From hacking...

Very sad to hear this week that Bill Atkinson has died.  I vividly remember seeing a Macintosh computer for the first time.  At the time I ...

Do you feel that AI is advancing faster than anything else you've seen in history? And the pace at which AI is developing is overwhelmin...

Like many people I was very excited by QRP-Labs work to bring sideband to the excellent, compact, high performance, digital rig, the QMX . I...

A friend alerted me to an interesting series of programs about shortwave from WNYC Studios. "Season Two of On the Media’s Peabody-winni...

Thanks to Thomas at The SWLing Post for drawing this to my attention. ABC Radio National, of which I'm a past contributor, has a docume...

Fantastic to see a serious ham radio construction project in the June edition of Silicon Chip magazine.  The project by Charles Kosina, VK3...

The competition for our smartphone dollars is about to enter a new round. Google is previewing Android 16 this week and Apple will preview i...

I've been staying in Tasmania this week, on the north coast, near Devonport and naturally I wanted to bring some sort of radio gear alon...

The Moorabbin & District Radio Club Hamfest must be one of the biggest in Victoria and it's always a good excuse to pick up some pa...

Artificial Intelligence continues to revolutionise our lives. Predictions from experts state that AI will likely automate or transform 50% t...

The Bendigo Amateur Radio and Electronics club today held their first Bendigo Technology Festival. It was an ambitious affair with informati...

An early electronics project for me was to construct an RF noise bridge. This remarkably simple device, combined with a receiver, let me mea...

Sample code for rotary encoder handling that I've found seems to double step with my encoder. I guess there's other that have half s...

Recently, I've been enjoying developing embedded projects on an RP2040 zero board using MicroPython. The RP2040s are fast and cheap and...

As part of my objective to take the SolderSmoke DC receiver forward to be a double sideband transceiver I've been messing about with an...

I've seen an OSError stack trace when trying to talk to an I2C device on the wrong address and wondered what EIO means. It would be nice...