SVFIG
Next Meeting:
Saturday, July 23rd
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA

Bring your laptop computer and wireless card to the meeting for free on-site Internet access at Cogswell!

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09:45

Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and Pastries

10:00

TingARM - CH Ting

TingARM Project - Since Ting will be providing our lunchtime nutritional sustenance, we're also hoping he will sustain our love of Forth through his presentation of further developments of his TingARM project.

Digital Oscilloscope Project Update - "I got the prototype PCB back and have all the surface mount parts installed. However, nothing seems to work yet. I will keep on probing these boards and report whatever I will find at the meeting."

12:00

Lunch - BBQ lunch courtesy of CH Ting

13:00

Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, Gossip, and Random Discussions

Potential topics include: SVFIG meeting schedule, August's lunch order-out options (Pizza or Armadillo Willy's via Waiters on Wheels), and speaker / topic suggestions.

13:30

Elections
If you can't be there consider sending a proxy. Last-minute nominations will be accepted.

14:00

More Free Stuff - Kevin Appert

• Xenu - a freeware link-checker which may prove invaluable for maintaining hyperlinks
  http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
• No Nags and other Freeware and Shareware resources
  http://www.nonags.com/
• CSDIFF - lists changes between files
  http://www.componentsoftware.com/Products/CSDiff/
• Free Credit Report

15:00

USB Oscilloscope Review and JAlbum Demo - Dave Jaffe

• Gansle USB Oscilloscope Article
  http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160902529
• JAlbum - an application for building a scrapbook of photographs
  http://jalbum.net/

15:30

16:00

Possible Beers and Dinner
Venues include Tied House in Mountain View.

Suggested Future Meeting Topics

• Forth Success Stories - look at the ones on FIG's and FORTH, Inc.'s webpages and bring your own!
• TI's free SPICE distribution
• Name that antenna
• Introduction to Linux
• George Perry's experiences installing Linux
• Linux installation party
• Smart Dust
• Tour of Moffett Field Museum
• Math Secrets of Mosaic Industries' QED-Forth
• Robot Parts and Pieces - vendor(s) from the 2004 RoboNexus show
• misc8051 Forth - Charley Shattuck
• Smart Dust
• A USB Device Enumerator in SwiftForth
• PID Control
• SVFIG meeting or meeting fragments as Webcast
• Forth Day 2005 in Anaheim
• Space-rated Forth chip
• Forth-based mass-market appliance computers - Canon Cat and/or QX10

SVFIG welcomes everyone's participation at its monthly meetings. There are many ways to contribute:

• bring in a hardware or software item to discuss,
• present a topic in an area of expertise,
• discuss a book, paper, website, new product, new application, or an article in Forthwrite, or
• talk about a current project.

If you would like to present at an SVFIG meeting, contact Kevin Appert.