Dr Chris Bridges

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Europe's first deep-space optical communication link The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 m...

For more information on ESA’s deep-space laser communication tests, see: www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

I'm CC @pytorch.org 2.x for my pynq #FPGA board (ARM7) via @docker.com - I've clearly much to learn but when this works, I will feel quite good. Until then ... 👇

a woman wearing a pink fur coat with a hood is sitting in a chair and says `` this is torture '' . ALT: a woman wearing a pink fur coat with a hood is sitting in a chair and says `` this is torture '' .

[In Big Brother voice]
“Day 3 in the docker build house and the housemates are not happy”
#FPGA #Pytorch

Coded today - felt nice bc it worked after limited debugging.
imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pytho...

Measuring software latency through #gnuradio symbol sync is straight forward using the tag strobe & debug blocks. Just pipe out & analyse.

Reminder to build from src with perf counters next time ...

3️⃣ "... The obsession with umbrella branding seems structurally incompatible with showcasing a university’s strengths.”

2️⃣ “It’s ironic – they vastly overclaim their distinctiveness whilst sounding hyper-generic, entirely concealing their truly distinct components: departments with their own quirky, hard-earned, widely renowned identities ...

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1️⃣ “Universities across the UK are merging into bland sameness, with meaningless straplines and generic website templates”

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I then got Down to Earth, which was also epic. Sad Ozzy’s gone - but his antics & music lives on.

At college, a friend burned me Ozzmosis on CD which became very worn in my first car.

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😔🤘

Radio geeks say you can still get 'lost' DoD hurricane data : Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off - www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/s... "Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff" #trump

Use of 430-440 MHz by AST SpaceMobile constellation AST & Science LLC (AST SpaceMobile) currently have five Bluebird commercial satellites that use the amateur radio 430-440 MHz band. They were launched into Low Earth Orbit on September 12, 2024…

If you are a satellite operator and have not filed an objection against AST SpaceMobile's request to use 70cm, it's time to get busy. There's still time.

Don't just sit waiting for other organisations to do it on your behalf.

amsat-uk.org/2025/06/26/u...

See here:
forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?th...

From the HamRadio community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the HamRadio community

Nvm. I found the article calling to action - I have submitted my own comment to FCC.

You can too here: www.reddit.com/r/HamRadio/c...

Well done! What more can be done?

Ham Radio Users Clash With Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile Over Spectrum Use AST wants to use the 430 to 440MHz band for a satellite-to-phone service. Ham radio enthusiasts say the company's plan is vague and could interfere with their slim slice of spectrum.

www.pcmag.com/news/ham-rad...

It’s graduation at Surrey, so I’ll be there but travelling travelling up after lunch.

Has anyone #gnuradio 'y done any VOLK / fftw benchmarking on a @raspberrypi.com V5? #please

Pesky cables!

Glad you’re here 😊👍

We're hiring in FPGA / VHDL for lasers! | Chris Bridges We're hiring in FPGA / VHDL for lasers! Please share to your recently graduating students! https://lnkd.in/e_mNg4bB

Huh? #FPGA plus #lasers?! A fancy #job indeed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/drchri...

Interesting!

The image details an upcoming contact for Axiom Mission 4, scheduled for Friday, July 4, 2025, at 07:34 UTC (1:34 AM ET, 9:34 AM CET). The contact involves Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniowski SQ7AS on the ISS (call sign NA1SS), with a telebridge via ZS6JON on Earth. It can be listened to on 145.800 MHz FM over Southern Africa. The event is associated with the University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland. The image also features the Axiom Space logo and an ISS Amateur Radio logo.

Contact upcoming with Poland!

Axiom Space #Ax4 crew member Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski , SQ7AS, will talk to students at the University of Wroclaw via ham radio from the Space Station.

Scheduled Fri. Jul. 4 at 07:34 UTC | 3:34 AM ET | 9:34 AM CET via ZS6JON telebridge.

Touchdown with a cheeky powerslide.

LAUNCH! SpaceX B1071-26 launches the Transporter-14 rideshare mission from SLC-4E, Vandenberg.

Overview:
nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/tran...

An experimental platform for levitated mechanics in space - IOPscience An experimental platform for levitated mechanics in space, Homans, Jack, Simcox, Elliot, Wardak, Jakub, Barbara, Laura, Fuchs, Tim M., Muffato, Rafael, Concepcion, Florence, Dragomir, Andrei, Vogt, Christian, Nisbet-Jones, Peter BR, Bridges, Christopher, Ulbricht, Hendrik

Together with Uni. of Southampton & Twin Paradox Labs, we worked on a thing, iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #physics #FPGA #avionics - more information here: www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

Interesting! I have some questions - can I email?

U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain

When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...