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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Grampians in western Victoria. One of my favourite places. This is from Sundial Peak; my third peak in the range. Only 66 to go.

View from Sundial Peak in the Victorian Grampians.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Shanghai at night from the Bund.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Visited a former residence of Mao’s in Shanghai. This painting struck me.

Young person surrounded by halo of light instructing elders.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Girls go on a picnic on st Valentine’s Day.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Newly engaged couple ask biology researcher for help after getting flat tyre.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Been working on this (in spare time) for nearly a year. Finally finished. Evaporation sensor system. Wireless hub foreground. Microcontrollers in box on left. Motorbike battery powers fans inside dome. Intended to help get a better understanding of factors that affect environmental evaporation.

Plastic dome with sensors and wireless hub.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I once shared a lift with David Boone in Launceston.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

In Hanoi for IEEE ICOIN. Interesting place. Venue is PTIT.

Socialist Realism at Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The link isn’t opening. Could you post the reference please?

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This is worth a read. Talks about Russell, Gödel and others who worked on foundations of mathematics.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Christchurch for IEEE ITNAC. itnac.org.au

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I’m guessing he’s talking about a comms network with a fibre optic core and Ethernet access.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

IEEE LCN in Sydney. Fiftieth conference making it one of the longest running comms and networks conferences. www.ieeelcn.org

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

E but only because of the Tasmanian scallop pies.

Zone E contains the Australian state of Tasmania.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The Convent Gallery at Daylesford.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Thesis is that population stabilizing more quickly than projected and for many countries will soon decline. Don’t recall “scarcity” but says reduced population should make some problems easier to address but new ones will emerge. Interesting read but not a demographer so can’t comment on validity.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Always something interesting in IEEE Spectrum bsky.app/profile/spec...

bsky.app

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Beautiful place Mallorca. Sadly came down with a cold on the way over and spent most of my visit asleep in my hotel room. Nice hotel.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I have so many backpacks I don’t know what to do with.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

At Edulearn in Mallorca. Presenting paper about teaching wireless comms.

Certificate saying I’ve presented a paper at Edulrarn25.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

My favourite Deighton is “Horse underwater”. Here’s the narrator (same character as in “The Ipcress File”) describing the first lesson of a navy diving class. I was impressed with CPO Edwards’ classroom management style.

Extract from Deighton’s novel “Horse Underwater”.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Want to be able to access data via webserver on RPi as a plot. Stop gap is to use the very good Numbers App but interface with webserver a bit clunky. Might look at JavaScript plotting.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Four of them talking to the Raspberry Pi.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Electronics and programming done. Still some coding to do on the Pi.

Battery powered temperature and humidity sensor with ESP32 microcontroller.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I’ve got a 12V motorbike battery but the step down transformer I’ve got has an output current limit of 2.1A. Raspberry Pi5 likes 5A. Will need a different transformer.

Motorbike battery and step down transformer.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

All I know about Ohio is from Neil Young and Bill Bryson.

Bill Bryson on driving across Ohio. Not looking forward to it

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Using Raspberry Pi5 as wireless hub in current project. Pi 5 are terrific little computers but they are fairly hungry. This 10000mAh battery lasted only a few hours. Need something bigger.

Raspberry Pi running off a 10000 mAh battery

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

That’s the one. Nothofagus Gunnii.

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Philip Branch @philipbranch.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Temperature and humidity sensor. Soldering pins with 0.05 inch spacing (1.27 mm) is hard.

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