marxy's musing on technology

My electronics work bench seems to descend in to entropy of its own accord faster than I can deal with it. Part of the problem is my short a...

In recent months I've been off in the land of software development and have been sadly ignoring the electronics workbench. To get me bac...

AI is moving beyond being a tool we use into systems that can make decisions and act autonomously. There are growing questions about how muc...

I've been a bit quiet here on the blog recently, in part due to some excellent club events I've been involved with. The Macedon Rang...

There have been reports recently of 20m openings so I left WSPR receiving and noticed the US was coming in. Switched over to FreeDV RADEV1 u...

Sad news that my 97+ year old uncle Robert Glasser, ex VK3QA & VK3DRG, has died after a fall at home. Robert was my first exposure to th...

Close readers of this blog will have noticed that I do a national radio talk about technology every fortnight but this week I was away on a ...

On the trip north to the recent walk I was lucky enough to fly on a couple of different recent Airbus planes in the Qantas fleet. The last o...

I've just completed a beautiful 65km walk along the coast in Northern New South Wales.  The Yuraygir coastal walk started at Yamba and ...

Have you noticed those new "Make this a preferred source in Google" buttons appearing on news websites? What do they actually do? ...

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...

  Made me chuckle browsing AliExpress. (Seems a little over priced if you ask me).

I just saw the announcement of NetBSD 11. Software that has been around for many years. What struck me was this comment: As you are probabl...

Nice net this morning with VK2, VK3, VK4 stations participating. A few new stations which is always good to hear. Again I ran the net using ...