| SVFIG Meeting Agenda for Saturday, April 25, 1998 at Cogswell College 1175 Bordeaux Dr. Sunnyvale, CA |
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09:45 |
Coffee and Donuts |
10:00 |
How to Drive a Robotic Arm - C.H. Ting Ting will talk about how to control a robot arm with stepper motors. Topics will include acceleration and deceleration, coordination of arm and wrist motors, multitasking, and host computer interface. Much of the code was developed on a microcontroller based system using Philips' 16-bit 80C51XA chip. The eForth model was greatly enhanced and optimized for this fairly advanced system. |
12:00 |
Lunch Pizza or subs from Togos? Bring your Forth problem to Glen Haydon and he will organize his Brown Bag Tutorial accordingly. |
13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip |
13:30 |
OS/Forth - Chris Passauer Chris calls this "The complete operating system for real people". The tenet being: Forth, when used to implement -- and be -- an Operating System, can displace all other current OSs (Microsoft, OS/2 and UNIX based) on the PC/Intel single-user desktop platform. Handout |
14:30 |
Break |
15:00 |
Open Floor - An opportunity for anyone who has something about Forth to talk about. |
16:00 |
Adjournment Post meeting "tea" at a Mt. View coffee house or somewhere else is possible - if it is too early for dinner. "Weird Stuff" is not too far away - most months, a few bargain/oddity hunters gather there after the meeting. |