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Next Meeting -
Saturday, April 26th
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Rooms 197A and 197B
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
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to you, send the message Subscribe SVFIG Meeting Agenda to:
George Perry
Wireless Internet access is anticipated (though not
guaranteed) at Cogswell, so bring your wi-fi enabled laptop.
Security
Notice
When attending SVFIG meetings,
please be aware that Cogswell College now locks its doors on weekends. To
facilitate your entry to the building, there will be an SVFIG member stationed
at the door from 9:45am to 10:15am to admit recognized SVFIG meeting attendees.
If you are attending an SVFIG meeting for the first time, please bring a
printout of this agenda to identify your interest in Forth and thereby gain
admission. If you arrive after 10:15am, there will be a telephone number posted
for you to call to alert someone of your presence at the door. The front door
will also be checked at 20 to 30 minute intervals to accommodate individuals
without cellphones.
Do not, under any
circumstances, allow strangers to enter Cogswell. Those who are authorized
admittance have key-cards.
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April Meeting Agenda
09:45 --- Coffee and a Chat
10:10 --- Forth Day 2008
Suggest a speaker or volunteer to speak!
10:15 --- eForth on
Olimex
SAM7-EX256 ARM board - CH Ting
"I just got eForth running on an Olimex board with an AT91SAM7X256 ARM7
microcontroller. This chip is interesting because it has 64 Kbytes of RAM, 256
Kbytes of flash, and an 8 MHz ADC. The Olimex development board includes a
small color LCD display. It should be a good host for my digital storage
oscilloscope project. I will talk about my efforts and demonstrate the
software."
Noon --- Lunch
Some folks bring their lunch, some folks go to Togos.
13:00 --- Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, Random
Access
13:30 --- Cool Stuff at the Embedded Systems
Conference - Dave Jaffe
Dave will describe, through photos, some of the cool products that impressed
him at this month's Embedded
Systems Conference.
14:00 --- Random Access - All in attendance
We always find something to talk about.
16:00 --- Adjourn
How you can help SVFIG:
- Bring your speaker and topic suggestions to every
meeting!
- Your input for and participation in next year's Forth
Day is always welcomed.
Coming to SVFIG in the May:
Coming to SVFIG in the future (hopefully):
WAV File and Soundcard I/O Software Using
Win32Forth - Andy Korsak
This software was written for amateur radio applications. Andy has suggested
that it might be useful to look at his code in advance of his talk.
Contributions to this work-in-progress would be welcomed. You can download and
view his sound card software on the
Win32Forth
group (membership required), or here.
- Tentative - June Meeting in San Mateo at the home of CH
Ting
Please register your interest for these
topics:
- Viewing of Analog by Design shows hosted by Bob
Pease - list of shows
- The world's second Babbage Engine is coming to town.
Maybe we can have a meeting at the Computer History Museum to take a
look.
- Review and discussion of recent postings on
news:comp.lang.forth
- Review and discussion of interesting Forth projects and
many files at the Yahoo Win32Forth
Group
Off the table:
- There has been a lack of interest for a presentation by
a representative from Gumstix.
- There has been no success in contacting the author of
Propeller
Forth - written locally by Cliff L. Biffle
- A tour of TechShop
in Menlo Park is not planned at this time. If you would like to visit
the facility, please make your own arrangements. Check out their
talks, events, and instructional
classes.
If you have anything you'd like to talk
about in April,
please contact
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