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Next Meeting:
Saturday, August 25th
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Rooms 197A and 197B
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
If you would like to have meeting announcements e-mailed
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
When attending SVFIG meetings,
please be aware that Cogswell College now locks its doors on weekends. To
facilitate 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 along a
printout of this agenda to identify your interest in Forth and 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 intervals of 20 to 30 minutes to accommodate those without
cellphones.
Do not under any circumstances
let any strangers enter Cogswell. Those who are authorized admittance have
key-cards.
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Final August Meeting Agenda
10:15 --- Floating Point Mandelbrot Computation
Revisited - CH Ting
"I will show the Mandelbrot plots done with integer math and with floating
point math using the Floating Point Unit in the Intel processor. I am learning
HTML, and will do the presentation in HTML. Mandelbrot plots are great for the
background of HTML webpages. I have also learned how to add background music to
the webpages."
13:15 --- Interesting Items - Volume 8 -
Dave Jaffe
Dave will continue his survey of interesting newly-introduced microcontrollers,
I/O peripherals, sensors, products, and gadgets that can provide useful and
unique capabilities to Forth embedded systems. If anyone has come across
anything that fits this category, pass them along to him for inclusion in his
presentation.
13:30 --- Audible Computing - Masa
Kasahara
What would happen if we only relied on our hearing when using a computer? Masa
will discuss his project that uses Forth to provide an audible interface to a
minimal computer, just a motherboard with firmware. He'll describe his thinking
and his goals and solicit advice from the group.
14:15 --- Two-Stack Design from CPU Class -
John Rible
"I'll describe the architecture of the SP2 and its "hardware threaded
code." It's a 16-bit, two-stack, design following Chuck's uP21 family of
chips. Coded in Verilog, it's meant for inclusion in FPGA projects. Bill Muench
worked with me to write an eForth compiler for it."
How you can help SVFIG:
- Bring your speaker and topic suggestions to every
meeting!
- Your input for November's Forth Day is always
welcomed.
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.
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 have 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 August,
please contact
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