Hawkesbury River Rescue
It started off as a rather routine Easter fishing day trip to Mooney Mooney with Warren.
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australia
Lake Eucumbene - who would go trout fishing during a heatwave?
Made a trip to Buckenderra Holiday Village on Lake Eucumbene for a very hot Australia Day weekend.
Sydney Harbour Luderick
Went for a fish in Sydney Harbour with Beard this afternoon.
Hawkesbury River 2020
As has been the custom for many years, I went for a camping/fishing trip with high-school friend Warren on the Hawkesbury River (here is a list of previous trips).
Tasmanian Holiday
Went to Tasmania for a few days. Last time I was here was 2015.
Lake Copeton Fishing for Murray Cod and Golden Perch
Drove with Beard for 16 hours for 10 hours fishing at Lake Inverell.
Crookwell Sheep Shearing
Went to visit Prickle Farmer in Crookwell and take some photographs.
Lake Wallace Smoked Rainbow Trout
Went with Beard for a day trip to Lake Wallace in the Blue Mountains. It was a rainy day but fortunately not too windy.
Lightning Ridge
Went for a drive to Lightning Ridge in the central north of NSW. It is an opal mining town and the major source of the rare black opal.
Foggy morning, pork crackling and MWRS AGM
Early walk on a very foggy morning.
Dubbo trip
Went for a drive to Dubbo as a cure for cabin fever.
John Moyle Memorial Field Day 2020
The Manly Warringah Radio Society activated Barrington Tops in the John Moyle Memorial Field Day this year.
Camden Haven
Photos from North Brother Lookout.
Balls Head
Photos from Balls Head.
Fishing trip with Eden
Warren’s brother, Derek and his son Eden were visiting from Broome and we took them out on the Hawkesbury. We only had a few hours and the tides were not quite right.
Mooney Mooney Spring Trip 2019
This was the first trip for Warren and I for the season. We were on the way to Milson Island when the engine started hesitating and then stopped.
Sydney Harbour Kingfish Jan 2019
It was cold and wet today but good to get out with Beard and son in Sydney Harbour. First time I can remember the temperature high and low being 21 C in the middle of summer.
Hawkesbury 2018
Returned to the Hawkesbury River with Warren and my daughter Nicole. Last time I was there camping with Nicole was in 2009. The fishing was tough and the trip reasonably uneventful. Here are my sna...
Mooney Mooney Morning 2018
Couldn’t believe this was the first time this year Warren and I fished Mooney Mooney. It was forecast to be 13-31 Celcius, 10 degrees above the average and the first warm day of spring. Wind was to...
John Moyle Memorial Field Day 2018
Tim VK2BT, Dave VK2JDS and Owen VK2OL
Pittwater Jan 2018
Despite it being really windy, had a good day of fishing with Beard and his son Lachlan in Pittwater.
Fly-fishing for Kingfish in Pittwater, Sydney
Ken came from Seattle to Sydney for a few solid days of fishing. I’m going to call this FFF’18 (even though it was in 2017 and the real FFF’18 was Ken and Guy fishing in NZ).
Forster trip with Ken
Ken came to visit from Seattle so Beard and I took a day off on Friday to go car-camping in Forster.
International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2017
At my first International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend with the Manly Warringah Radio Society, operating from Barrenjoey Lighthouse. Here is their writeup: http://www.mwrs.org.au/lighthouse-ope...
The Dish, Parkes NSW
The Dish
Balls Head Panorama
Sydney Skyline from Balls Head
South West Rocks (Michael Zhu)
An awesome fishing report that Michael Zhu sent to me via Facebook Messenger.
Mungo Brush Beach
Photos from Mungo Brush beach.
Hawkesbury 2016
Photos from another great trip to the Hawkesbury River.
School Retreat (Manly 2016)
Here are some photos from the School of Electrical and Information Engineering retreat in Manly.
Danny Lim
Took this photo of Danny Lim, Activist, outside Redfern station. A nice guy and quite a character!
Luderick Fishing Sydney Harbour
Luderick (otherwise known as blackfish) are among my favourite targets as they are quite plentiful in Sydney Harbour and the fishing is very visual. The rig involves a green weed or sea lettuce on ...
Hawkesbury River 2015
A camping trip with Warren to the Hawkesbury has become an annual event but unfortunately, we couldn’t do it this year but went for a day trip. This was also our first fishing trip there in the new...
Sydney looking west
A westward looking photograph of Sydney with the Eastern Suburbs in the foreground, Sydney CBD and Harbour in the middle, and the Blue Mountains in the distance. It is a post processed using techni...
Cradle Mountain Tasmania
A gallery of photographs taken around Cradle Mountain, Tasmania.
Fishing with friends
Our boat was purchased around 1991 and has served us well. It is jointly owned with my close university friends, Beard and Warren. We were pleased to go out together for the first time in more than...
Sydney University Open Day (from a weather balloon)
A photograph of the Sydney University Open Day from a weather balloon above the tower of the main quadrangle. This photo was made with Sydney University Electrical and Information Engineering stude...
Cowan Creek
Photos from a short trip to Cowan Creek on a foggy morning. More after the jump.
Kangaroo Tagging at Nelson Bay
I had the opportunity to visit the Nelson Bay Golf Course and observe the tagging programme of semi-wild Eastern Grey Kangaroos being conducted by a colleague in Veterinary Science. Our interest in...
The Gap, Watsons Bay, Sydney
Some photos from The Gap, Watsons Bay, Sydney this morning at sunrise.
High Altitude Balloon Launch #1
Our Sydney University Electrical Engineering students, Stephen Tridgell and David Portelli successfully made a high-altitude balloon launch from Blayney, NSW. Stephen’s report is after the jump.
Panorama at Akuna Bay
Went for a drive this morning to Akuna Bay. Fog was coming off the river and this photograph was taken on the road between Akuna Bay and Church Point.
Luderick Sydney Harbour
Went for a fish in Sydney Harbour with my neighbour Michael. Had a great time catching luderick (otherwise known as blackfish).
Lake Eucumbene 2013
Lake Eucumbene is an alpine lake about 500km south west of Sydney. My fishing mate, Beard (nickname which refered to his facial hair - he doesn’t have one anymore but the name stuck), and I made a ...
Molonglo Radio Observatory
The University of Sydney’s Molonglo Radio Observatory is located about 3-4 hours south of Sydney. It is being used to prototype some of the technologies in the proposed Square Kilometer Array.
Hawkesbury River 2011
Went with Warren to the Hawkesbury River for 3 days of fishing and camping.
Elaine’s (off) Road Trip
Check out Elaine’s amazing motorcycle trip around Australia here
Sydney skyline at dusk
This photo of Sydney was taken from Kirribilli, not too far from the Harbour Bridge.
Blue Mountains
The 1 million hectare Blue Mountains is a World Heritage listed National Park in NSW Australia. Its name comes from the blueish haze that often appears above it due to evaporation of eucalyptus oil...
Forster 2008
Went on a 4 day fishing trip to Booti Booti National Park with my mates, Warren and Chris despite unfavourable tides and weather. Life’s too short to only go fishing when conditions are good. We we...
Forster 2007
Forster is about a four hour drive from Sydney. Went on a very brief overnight camping/fishing trip with my good friends from Sydney University, Warren and Chris.
Weipa
Here are some photos taken from a fishing trip to Weipa in 2004 with Chris See.
London Lakes
Here are some photos from a trip to London Lakes in Tasmania that I made in December 2002.
Stanwell Park
This photo of Stanwell Park was taken back in 1999.
Marlin on Fly
Black marlin on fly, Cape Bowling Green, Queensland
Barramundi on Fly
Introduction Barramundi
travel
John Moyle Memorial Field Day 2020
The Manly Warringah Radio Society activated Barrington Tops in the John Moyle Memorial Field Day this year.
London trip
Went to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to see the David McVicar production of The Magic Flute.
Spring VHF/UHF Field Day
Photos from the 2019 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day. More information at the Manly Warringah Radio Society site.
Mako on Fly - San Diego 2019
The mako shark is one of the fastest and most ferocious fish in the sea. They can swim up to 69 km/h (42 mph) and jump 6m (20 feet) in the air. There two species, the shortfin (Isurus oxyrinchus) a...
Grass Valley Fly-Fishing 2019
The FPGA Fly-Fishing Symposium 2019 (FFF’19) was a post-FPGA Conference workshop, attended by Guy, Ken and I.
Amateur Radio Shops in Akihabara
Passing through Tokyo this week and took the opportunity to visit a few amateur radio shops in Akihabara. <a href= "/assets/images/2018/12/DSCF5835.jpg" > <img src= "/assets/imag...
FPT18 Workshop on Embedded Machine Learning
Embedded Machine Learning: Technology and Opportunities
Visit to University of Kassel Amateur Radio Club
University of Kassel Amateur Radio Club station. Here I am with a sausage, received as honorarium for giving a lecture.
Fishing Utah 2018
Prior to the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City, went on an awesome fly-fishing trip, hosted by Brent in Provo, Utah. My previous trip was in 2008.
John Moyle Memorial Field Day 2018
Tim VK2BT, Dave VK2JDS and Owen VK2OL
Trinity River 2017
The 3rd annual FPGA Fly Fishing Workshop (FFF’17) was down on attendance, only Ken and myself participating from the 19-20th Feb, 2017. This year, it was on the Trinity River, California, fishing f...
Olympic Peninsula Fly-Fishing 2016
I participated in the 2nd FPGA Fly-Fishing (FFF’16) Symposium in Seattle WA, hosted by Ken and attended by Guy, Aaron (not pictured below) and myself. The previous FFF was in New Zealand and is des...
PAPAA 2016
We had a very successful Croucher PAPAA workshop at Hong Kong University.
New Zealand Fly-Fishing 2015
After attending the International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, Brent, Ken and myself took a 5-day fly-fishing trip around the Omarama region of the South Island in New Zealand. We c...
Molonglo Radio Observatory
The University of Sydney’s Molonglo Radio Observatory is located about 3-4 hours south of Sydney. It is being used to prototype some of the technologies in the proposed Square Kilometer Array.
Blue Mountains
The 1 million hectare Blue Mountains is a World Heritage listed National Park in NSW Australia. Its name comes from the blueish haze that often appears above it due to evaporation of eucalyptus oil...
Snowboard Fever
Photo from Beijing ski trip.
A trip to Finland
My trip to Finland coincided with the Midsummer Festival, an event which I was lucky enough to share with my host Tero.
New Zealand Trip
Fished the South Island of New Zealand in November 1996 with fishing buddy Beard. Here are some pictures of the trip.
hobbies
Simple capillary alcohol stove from 375 ml coke can
It only takes about 10 min to make a stove that burns methylated spirits from a coke can.
Camp Kitchen (chuck box)
Wanted to make a camp kitchen for a while to use on the boat.
John Moyle Memorial Field Day 2020
The Manly Warringah Radio Society activated Barrington Tops in the John Moyle Memorial Field Day this year.
Raised Garden Bed
Over a couple of weekends, made a raised garden bed for the back garden.
Spring VHF/UHF Field Day
Photos from the 2019 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day. More information at the Manly Warringah Radio Society site.
New Stove Case
Carried an electric stove all the way back from Shanghai only to drop and break the plastic case.
International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2019
Activation of Barrenjoey Lighthouse with the Manly Warringah Radio Society (MWRS) on the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. There are more photos at the MWRS writeup.
Visit to W1QG’s shack
Chris Dick was kind enough to introduce me to his friend, Dick Benson W1QG, a retired hardware development engineer. We went to visit his very impressive shack (which was not difficult to spot from...
Amateur Radio Shops in Akihabara
Passing through Tokyo this week and took the opportunity to visit a few amateur radio shops in Akihabara. <a href= "/assets/images/2018/12/DSCF5835.jpg" > <img src= "/assets/imag...
Visit to University of Kassel Amateur Radio Club
University of Kassel Amateur Radio Club station. Here I am with a sausage, received as honorarium for giving a lecture.
WSJT-X with improved antenna
26 May 2018
Installing powerpoles
Anderson Powerpole connectors are the standard for 12V amateur radio equipment. Instructions are here: https://powerwerx.com/help/powerpole-assembly-instructions and this figure shows the correct o...
How to program Australian Repeaters into an Icom IC-2730A using Chirp
I was not able to find much information on how to program Australian repeaters into my Icom IC-2730A. I did this under a Windows 7 VirtualBox virtual machine since I thought all I needed was the Ic...
Kigumi table
Really amazing craftsmanship on this table.
John Moyle Memorial Field Day 2018
Tim VK2BT, Dave VK2JDS and Owen VK2OL
Refinishing Footstool
Refinishing a footstool I made about 5 years ago in Tasmanian Oak. It was my take on this elegant design published in Fine Woodworking http://www.finewoodworking.com/2002/02/01/a-sturdy-footstool.
Camphor Laurel Timber Slab Hall Table
This nice camphor laurel slab was purchased at the Sydney Timber and Working with Wood Show.
International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2017
At my first International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend with the Manly Warringah Radio Society, operating from Barrenjoey Lighthouse. Here is their writeup: http://www.mwrs.org.au/lighthouse-ope...
A 2m/70cm (146MHz and 440MHz) J-pole Antenna
My electronics doesn’t normally involve a hacksaw, hammer and propane torch but I had fun building this J-pole antenna from instructions by N6JSX.
Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Soldier Set
The Victorinox Soldier is the classic Swiss Army knife (SAK). Each has a date stamp and this set is from 1934, 1965, 1970 and 1997. Also note the evolution of the blade (from clip point to spear po...
Cessna first solo
Been taking flying lessons and took my first solo in a Cessna 152 in December 1996.
fly-fishing
Mako on Fly - San Diego 2019
The mako shark is one of the fastest and most ferocious fish in the sea. They can swim up to 69 km/h (42 mph) and jump 6m (20 feet) in the air. There two species, the shortfin (Isurus oxyrinchus) a...
Grass Valley Fly-Fishing 2019
The FPGA Fly-Fishing Symposium 2019 (FFF’19) was a post-FPGA Conference workshop, attended by Guy, Ken and I.
Fishing Utah 2018
Prior to the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City, went on an awesome fly-fishing trip, hosted by Brent in Provo, Utah. My previous trip was in 2008.
Fly-fishing for Kingfish in Pittwater, Sydney
Ken came from Seattle to Sydney for a few solid days of fishing. I’m going to call this FFF’18 (even though it was in 2017 and the real FFF’18 was Ken and Guy fishing in NZ).
Trinity River 2017
The 3rd annual FPGA Fly Fishing Workshop (FFF’17) was down on attendance, only Ken and myself participating from the 19-20th Feb, 2017. This year, it was on the Trinity River, California, fishing f...
Olympic Peninsula Fly-Fishing 2016
I participated in the 2nd FPGA Fly-Fishing (FFF’16) Symposium in Seattle WA, hosted by Ken and attended by Guy, Aaron (not pictured below) and myself. The previous FFF was in New Zealand and is des...
New Zealand Fly-Fishing 2015
After attending the International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, Brent, Ken and myself took a 5-day fly-fishing trip around the Omarama region of the South Island in New Zealand. We c...
Lake Eucumbene 2013
Lake Eucumbene is an alpine lake about 500km south west of Sydney. My fishing mate, Beard (nickname which refered to his facial hair - he doesn’t have one anymore but the name stuck), and I made a ...
Life, the Universe and Fishing
I was asked by Prof Evangeline Young to give a “Lunchtime Pizza talk” on the 15th May, 2009. Here is the text of the talk which is not really about fishing but concerns graduate research.
A trip to Finland
My trip to Finland coincided with the Midsummer Festival, an event which I was lucky enough to share with my host Tero.
Walthamstow Reservoir
From Sydney, going trout fishing requires commitment. It is either an 8 hour drive to the Snowy Mountains or a plane trip to New Zealand. From Hong Kong, it is even more difficult. In London, I fou...
Meon Springs
Fished Meon Springs yesterday. It was my first fishing trip in the UK and my first experience fishing a managed, stocked fishery. Went with Tero Rissa who got the beautiful 6.5 pound hen rainbow tr...
Weipa
Here are some photos taken from a fishing trip to Weipa in 2004 with Chris See.
London Lakes
Here are some photos from a trip to London Lakes in Tasmania that I made in December 2002.
New Zealand Trip
Fished the South Island of New Zealand in November 1996 with fishing buddy Beard. Here are some pictures of the trip.
Marlin on Fly
Black marlin on fly, Cape Bowling Green, Queensland
Barramundi on Fly
Introduction Barramundi
hawkesbury
Hawkesbury River Rescue
It started off as a rather routine Easter fishing day trip to Mooney Mooney with Warren.
Hawkesbury River 2020
As has been the custom for many years, I went for a camping/fishing trip with high-school friend Warren on the Hawkesbury River (here is a list of previous trips).
Fishing trip with Eden
Warren’s brother, Derek and his son Eden were visiting from Broome and we took them out on the Hawkesbury. We only had a few hours and the tides were not quite right.
Mooney Mooney Spring Trip 2019
This was the first trip for Warren and I for the season. We were on the way to Milson Island when the engine started hesitating and then stopped.
Hawkesbury 2018
Returned to the Hawkesbury River with Warren and my daughter Nicole. Last time I was there camping with Nicole was in 2009. The fishing was tough and the trip reasonably uneventful. Here are my sna...
Mooney Mooney Morning 2018
Couldn’t believe this was the first time this year Warren and I fished Mooney Mooney. It was forecast to be 13-31 Celcius, 10 degrees above the average and the first warm day of spring. Wind was to...
Hawkesbury 2016
Photos from another great trip to the Hawkesbury River.
Hawkesbury River 2015
A camping trip with Warren to the Hawkesbury has become an annual event but unfortunately, we couldn’t do it this year but went for a day trip. This was also our first fishing trip there in the new...
Hawkesbury River 2014
Much like previous years, went to do some fishing in the Hawkesbury River over the Christmas break. This time, Beard joined us. Nothing too different from other trips and a good time was had by all.
Hawkesbury River 2013
Our trips to the Hawkesbury River have become an annual event.
Hawkesbury River 2012
In what has turned out to become an annual event, went on a 4 day camping trip to the Hawkesbury River with my high-school friend, Warren. We camp on a beach which is only accessible by boat.
Hawkesbury River 2011
Went with Warren to the Hawkesbury River for 3 days of fishing and camping.
photography
Lightning Ridge
Went for a drive to Lightning Ridge in the central north of NSW. It is an opal mining town and the major source of the rare black opal.
London trip
Went to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to see the David McVicar production of The Magic Flute.
Yosemite 2019
Went for a two day trip to Yosemite National Park, staying at Yosemite Cedar Lodge. It is such a magnificent place. Wish I had more time there to take photos.
Forster trip with Ken
Ken came to visit from Seattle so Beard and I took a day off on Friday to go car-camping in Forster.
Postcard from Shanghai 2017
Travelled to Shanghai to visit my collaborators at Fudan University over Easter 2017.
School Retreat (Manly 2016)
Here are some photos from the School of Electrical and Information Engineering retreat in Manly.
PAPAA 2016
We had a very successful Croucher PAPAA workshop at Hong Kong University.
Cradle Mountain Tasmania
A gallery of photographs taken around Cradle Mountain, Tasmania.
Postcard from Harbin Summer 2013
After a superb trip to Harbin in winter, I returned in summer to attend the ICEMI conference, kindly hosted again by Prof Peng Yu, Prof Shaojun Wang and Mr Yeyong Pang from Harbin Institute of Te...
ubuntu
Albacore Ubuntu GPU Machine Install
This is how a new machine, albacore, was configured.
Luks Encryption under Ubuntu
Copy a LUKS volume This is how to copy a LUKS partition from back1 to back2. We assume the original device is already opened using: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/disk/by-uuid/dc861b6d-0113-4da8-9c74-23...
Amberjack Ubuntu GPU Machine Install
This is how a new machine, amberjack, was configured.
Xilinx Vivado 2020.1 on Ubuntu using Docker
Using Docker, installation of the Xilinx Vivado tools can be automated and isolated.
DUST2 Ubuntu GPU Machine Install
(last update 14/7/2020)
Amateur Radio Links
Here is a collection of amateur radio links.
Installing USRP Toolchain (UHD and GNU Radio) for Ettus B210 (on Ubuntu 18.04)
Installation of software for Ettus B210.
Updating jekyll on macOS
When doing a bundle update I got an error telling me that installing ffi failed, and the following had to be fixed: ``` phwl@x86_64-apple-darwin13 phwl.github.io % gem install ffi -v ‘1.12.2’ –sou...
VPN to the University of Sydney on Ubuntu
Openconnect makes it easy to use the University of Sydney VPN on Ubuntu.
Installing Anaconda and Pytorch
Here is how I configured Anaconda and Pytorch 0.4.1 on the Ubuntu 18.04 system mentioned here. This was for running DTWnet.
Setting up some new Ubuntu/NVIDIA machines
Some new machines arrived in the lab including a Dell XPS 8930 Desktop with Dell UltraSharp U2518D monitor.
Intel NUC8i7BEH
Impressed by the Intel NUC8i7BEH. It went together easily, requiring only a Philips head. Installed Ubuntu linux and it is pretty fast and quiet.
Dell Inspiron 13 7000
Setup of a Dell Inspiron 13 7000 running Windows 10 Pro at USyd
embedded
Audio configuration under Debian QEMU
This post describes how to use audio on aarch64 ARM under qemu Debian Linux. It follows from Debian on ARM via QEMU
Debian on ARM via QEMU
This post describes how to emulate an ARM 64 bit (aarch64) or ARM hard float 32 bit (armhf) processor using using qemu and install Debian Linux on the emulator. Actually I did the 32 bit one first ...
Building the Beaglebone kernel
This post describes how to cross compile the Beaglebone Black (BBB) or Beaglebone Green (BBG) Linux kernel on an Ubuntu 18.04 Linux machine.
Beaglebone to Si5351 interface via i2c
This post describes how to connect the BeagleBone to a Silicon Labs Si5351 i2c clock generator.
Connecting the Beaglebone to Internet
This post describes how to connect the BeagleBone to the Internet via Ethernet on Windows and MacOS.
BeagleBone Green Device Tree
This post describes configuration of the BeagleBone Green GPIO pinmux settings via the Linux Device Tree.
BeagleBone Green GPIO
This post details how to control the BeagleBone Green (BBG) via GPIO.
BeagleBone Green Getting Started
This post details how to get started with a BeagleBone Green (BBG) microSD card.
GPIO on QEMU ARM Linux
This post details how to use the GPIO peripheral on the ARM linux image built in Creating an emulated ARM Linux system using Buildroot and QEMU
Creating an emulated ARM Linux system using Buildroot and QEMU
This post details how to build an ARM linux image via buildroot, and emulate it using QEMU. This was done using an Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS host machine.
linux
Luks Encryption under Ubuntu
Copy a LUKS volume This is how to copy a LUKS partition from back1 to back2. We assume the original device is already opened using: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/disk/by-uuid/dc861b6d-0113-4da8-9c74-23...
DUST2 Ubuntu GPU Machine Install
(last update 14/7/2020)
Amateur Radio Links
Here is a collection of amateur radio links.
Installing USRP Toolchain (UHD and GNU Radio) for Ettus B210 (on Ubuntu 18.04)
Installation of software for Ettus B210.
VPN to the University of Sydney on Ubuntu
Openconnect makes it easy to use the University of Sydney VPN on Ubuntu.
Installing Anaconda and Pytorch
Here is how I configured Anaconda and Pytorch 0.4.1 on the Ubuntu 18.04 system mentioned here. This was for running DTWnet.
Setting up some new Ubuntu/NVIDIA machines
Some new machines arrived in the lab including a Dell XPS 8930 Desktop with Dell UltraSharp U2518D monitor.
Dell Inspiron 13 7000
Setup of a Dell Inspiron 13 7000 running Windows 10 Pro at USyd
repair
MY16 Subaru Forester Cabin Air / Pollen Filter Replacement
Took our 2016 Forester to Subaru for a service. They called me back asking if I wanted to pay $143 to replace the Cabin Air/Pollen filter.
Trailer Bearings
Here is how you tell what types of trailer bearings you have without taking them out.
Loose mattock head
This Stanley mattock has had a loose head for a few years now. Time to fix it properly.
Canon G9x charging via USB
I was having problems charging my Canon G9x via USB.
Honda HRU19D Lawnmower Full Service (Carburettor, Oil, Spark Plugs, Blades)
My Honda HRU19D has gone 10 years without a service.
Hard disk replacement for a mid-2011 iMac
Today on the operating table we have a mid-2011 iMac with a dead hard disk.
Intel NUC8i7BEH
Impressed by the Intel NUC8i7BEH. It went together easily, requiring only a Philips head. Installed Ubuntu linux and it is pretty fast and quiet.
Repair of a Marantz 74CD67 CD Player
My mother bought this Marantz 74CD67 CD player in 1996. Twenty years later, it was unable to read reliably.
shanghai
Hong Kong and Shanghai Trip 2019
Shenzhen I always look forward to visiting Hong Kong and Shanghai. Here are some photos from the trip.
Shanghai Harbin 2018
Had a short holiday prior to giving my 2018 Reconfigurable Computing course at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). Photos herein are mainly of food.
Shanghai 2018
Went to Shanghai again to collaborate with Prof Lingli Wang at Fudan University.
Postcard from Shanghai 2017
Travelled to Shanghai to visit my collaborators at Fudan University over Easter 2017.
Shanghai April 2013
I had an excellent trip to Shanghai last year and wrote about it here. I was fortunate enough to be invited back.
Postcard from Shanghai
Spent a fortnight over Easter in Shanghai,
hk
Hong Kong and Shanghai Trip 2019
Shenzhen I always look forward to visiting Hong Kong and Shanghai. Here are some photos from the trip.
Electronics Flea Market
On the second weekend of Mar-Sep, the Electronics Flea Market runs in the carpark of Fry’s Electronics, Sunnyvale CA. I arrived at 8am because I thought I might be the only one there at the startin...
Chengdu and Hong Kong 2018
Took a train trip to Chengdu for Sichuan food prior to the Performance-Aware Programming with Application Accelerators (PAPAA) 2018 Workshop in Hong Kong.
Fujifilm X Links
Introduction Wandering around Sim City in Hong Kong, a mint Fujifilm X100T jumped out and emptied my wallet. This is the first digital camera I really like as it is small, quiet and fast, making it...
electronics
Codan 6924
Picked up this “not working” Codan radio on Gumtree.
Wailing Joe Siren
Cleaning up some old stuff and found this from the 70’s.
Visit to W1QG’s shack
Chris Dick was kind enough to introduce me to his friend, Dick Benson W1QG, a retired hardware development engineer. We went to visit his very impressive shack (which was not difficult to spot from...
Berkeley Wireless Research Center 20th Year Anniversary
Photos from the Berkeley Wireless Research Center 20th Year Anniversary.
Installing powerpoles
Anderson Powerpole connectors are the standard for 12V amateur radio equipment. Instructions are here: https://powerwerx.com/help/powerpole-assembly-instructions and this figure shows the correct o...
A 2m/70cm (146MHz and 440MHz) J-pole Antenna
My electronics doesn’t normally involve a hacksaw, hammer and propane torch but I had fun building this J-pole antenna from instructions by N6JSX.
Gordon Bell talk at the University of Sydney
Gordon Bell gave a talk at the University of Sydney today. He signed my computer engineering book.
software
Albacore Ubuntu GPU Machine Install
This is how a new machine, albacore, was configured.
Amberjack Ubuntu GPU Machine Install
This is how a new machine, amberjack, was configured.
Xilinx Vivado 2020.1 on Ubuntu using Docker
Using Docker, installation of the Xilinx Vivado tools can be automated and isolated.
Computing links
A collection of interesting computing links.
TP Link TL-WPA4220 problem and fix
I purchased a TL-WPA4220 which was was unreliable. The connection did not stay up more than a day or so.
Generating a Publications List from BibTex files
Publications list in Markdown For many years I’ve been using a convoluted process to generate my publications list from separate bibtex files for journals, conferences, books, patents, etc. I thou...
Code for Leong and Carlile, “Methods for spherical data analysis and visualization”
The source code for the paper:
harbin
Shanghai Harbin 2018
Had a short holiday prior to giving my 2018 Reconfigurable Computing course at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). Photos herein are mainly of food.
Harbin Intitute of Technology (HIT) Reconfigurable Computing Course 2018
Lecture Notes (0-cel, 1-intro-cn, 1-lstm, 2-architecture, 3-exploration, 4-parallelism, 5-integration, 6-customisation, 7-precision, 8-mca, 9-kernelarch)
Postcard from Harbin Summer 2013
After a superb trip to Harbin in winter, I returned in summer to attend the ICEMI conference, kindly hosted again by Prof Peng Yu, Prof Shaojun Wang and Mr Yeyong Pang from Harbin Institute of Te...
Postcard from Harbin
Had a really cool time in Harbin.
Beijing and Harbin
Here are some photos taken from a trip to Beijing and Harbin in 2009.
FFF
Mako on Fly - San Diego 2019
The mako shark is one of the fastest and most ferocious fish in the sea. They can swim up to 69 km/h (42 mph) and jump 6m (20 feet) in the air. There two species, the shortfin (Isurus oxyrinchus) a...
Grass Valley Fly-Fishing 2019
The FPGA Fly-Fishing Symposium 2019 (FFF’19) was a post-FPGA Conference workshop, attended by Guy, Ken and I.
Fishing Utah 2018
Prior to the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City, went on an awesome fly-fishing trip, hosted by Brent in Provo, Utah. My previous trip was in 2008.
Fly-fishing for Kingfish in Pittwater, Sydney
Ken came from Seattle to Sydney for a few solid days of fishing. I’m going to call this FFF’18 (even though it was in 2017 and the real FFF’18 was Ken and Guy fishing in NZ).
Trinity River 2017
The 3rd annual FPGA Fly Fishing Workshop (FFF’17) was down on attendance, only Ken and myself participating from the 19-20th Feb, 2017. This year, it was on the Trinity River, California, fishing f...
Olympic Peninsula Fly-Fishing 2016
I participated in the 2nd FPGA Fly-Fishing (FFF’16) Symposium in Seattle WA, hosted by Ken and attended by Guy, Aaron (not pictured below) and myself. The previous FFF was in New Zealand and is des...
beaglebone
Building the Beaglebone kernel
This post describes how to cross compile the Beaglebone Black (BBB) or Beaglebone Green (BBG) Linux kernel on an Ubuntu 18.04 Linux machine.
Beaglebone to Si5351 interface via i2c
This post describes how to connect the BeagleBone to a Silicon Labs Si5351 i2c clock generator.
Connecting the Beaglebone to Internet
This post describes how to connect the BeagleBone to the Internet via Ethernet on Windows and MacOS.
BeagleBone Green Device Tree
This post describes configuration of the BeagleBone Green GPIO pinmux settings via the Linux Device Tree.
BeagleBone Green GPIO
This post details how to control the BeagleBone Green (BBG) via GPIO.
BeagleBone Green Getting Started
This post details how to get started with a BeagleBone Green (BBG) microSD card.
FPGA
Xilinx Vivado 2020.1 on Ubuntu using Docker
Using Docker, installation of the Xilinx Vivado tools can be automated and isolated.
Berkeley Wireless Research Center 20th Year Anniversary
Photos from the Berkeley Wireless Research Center 20th Year Anniversary.
Tokyo Institute of Technology Tsubame 3.0 Visit
Hosted by Prof Hiroki Nakahara and Prof Yuko Hara-Azumi, I gave a talk entitled “Large Scale FPGA Implementations of Machine Learning Algorithms” (slides available at /talks) at the Tokyo Institute...
Harbin Intitute of Technology (HIT) Reconfigurable Computing Course 2018
Lecture Notes (0-cel, 1-intro-cn, 1-lstm, 2-architecture, 3-exploration, 4-parallelism, 5-integration, 6-customisation, 7-precision, 8-mca, 9-kernelarch)
Ettus USRP x310 installation on Ubuntu
Vivado 2017.4 Version (Aug 2018)
outdoors
Simple capillary alcohol stove from 375 ml coke can
It only takes about 10 min to make a stove that burns methylated spirits from a coke can.
Camp Kitchen (chuck box)
Wanted to make a camp kitchen for a while to use on the boat.
Hawkesbury River 2012
In what has turned out to become an annual event, went on a 4 day camping trip to the Hawkesbury River with my high-school friend, Warren. We camp on a beach which is only accessible by boat.
Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Soldier Set
The Victorinox Soldier is the classic Swiss Army knife (SAK). Each has a date stamp and this set is from 1934, 1965, 1970 and 1997. Also note the evolution of the blade (from clip point to spear po...
celchristmas
Computer Engineering Lab Christmas Party Photo
A little late this year (and down on numbers due to COVID) but we had an enjoyable Christmas party.
Computer Engineering Lab Christmas Party Photo
We continue to have the world’s earlier Christmas party!
stoves
Simple capillary alcohol stove from 375 ml coke can
It only takes about 10 min to make a stove that burns methylated spirits from a coke can.
Camp Kitchen (chuck box)
Wanted to make a camp kitchen for a while to use on the boat.
New Stove Case
Carried an electric stove all the way back from Shanghai only to drop and break the plastic case.
beijing
Beijing and Harbin
Here are some photos taken from a trip to Beijing and Harbin in 2009.
radio-telescope
The Dish, Parkes NSW
The Dish
Molonglo Radio Observatory
The University of Sydney’s Molonglo Radio Observatory is located about 3-4 hours south of Sydney. It is being used to prototype some of the technologies in the proposed Square Kilometer Array.
eucumbene
Lake Eucumbene - who would go trout fishing during a heatwave?
Made a trip to Buckenderra Holiday Village on Lake Eucumbene for a very hot Australia Day weekend.
Lake Eucumbene 2013
Lake Eucumbene is an alpine lake about 500km south west of Sydney. My fishing mate, Beard (nickname which refered to his facial hair - he doesn’t have one anymore but the name stuck), and I made a ...
radio
Ettus USRP x310 installation on Ubuntu
Vivado 2017.4 Version (Aug 2018)
A 2m/70cm (146MHz and 440MHz) J-pole Antenna
My electronics doesn’t normally involve a hacksaw, hammer and propane torch but I had fun building this J-pole antenna from instructions by N6JSX.
aviation
Cessna first solo
Been taking flying lessons and took my first solo in a Cessna 152 in December 1996.
fishing
Life, the Universe and Fishing
I was asked by Prof Evangeline Young to give a “Lunchtime Pizza talk” on the 15th May, 2009. Here is the text of the talk which is not really about fishing but concerns graduate research.
people
Meeting Dr Karl
A great honour to hang out with the inimitable Dr Karl Kruszelnicki (and Taylor Swift) this morning. A real gentleman.
matlab
Code for Leong and Carlile, “Methods for spherical data analysis and visualization”
The source code for the paper:
EDC
EDC
Thought I’d post a photo of what I’m going to take on my upcoming 6 month trip the US for my “every day carry” or EDC.
macos
macOS Install
It seemed like a good idea to remove all the accumulated rubbish on my MacBook Pro and install what I really needed. Here are the steps:
jekyll
Moving from Wordpress to Jekyll
I have been using Wordpress for many years. It produces good looking websites and is easy to install and maintain. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy at all to backup the website, and the interface is al...
latex
Generating a Publications List from BibTex files
Publications list in Markdown For many years I’ve been using a convoluted process to generate my publications list from separate bibtex files for journals, conferences, books, patents, etc. I thou...
woodwork
Raised Garden Bed
Over a couple of weekends, made a raised garden bed for the back garden.
hobbies`
Jascha Heifetz links
Links to Jascha Heifetz documentaries, masterclasses and performances.
cooking
Smoked duck
One of my favorite dishes is smoked duck.
windows
Installing Docker
Here are installation instructions for installing Docker and running Modelsim for my ELEC3608 Computer Architecture course.