SVFIG Saturday, December 19th Third Saturday at Stanford University Terman Engineering Center Room
556
Terman Engineering
Center can be found on these maps - just search for Terman:
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Searchable Stanford Campus
Map
There is open parking on
weekends. Park in any A or C or metered space.
Take the elevator to the 5th
floor. Walk across the foyer and up the ramp just to the left of the glassed-in
office. Room 556 is at the top of the ramp - entrance on the left.
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anticipated (though not guaranteed) at Stanford, so bring your wi-fi enabled
laptop.
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Meeting Agenda to: George
Perry |
Meeting Agenda for
December
09:50 --- Coffee and a Chat
10:00 --- Canaan Hymns Digitization
Project - CH Ting "I am working with the
China Soul Foundation to digitize 1250
hymns know as Canaan
Hymns which were written by a Chinese farm girl. The Foundation will post
these hymns on its new web site on January 1, 2010. It will post the hymns with
numeric music notations and MIDI accompaniment. I am using
SimpMusic
Font to present numeric music notations. It is a very interesting system
and totally compatible with Forth. I will play a few hymns sung by the author,
Lu Xiaomin, from DVD and discuss the work involved in this project."
11:48 --- Lunch Is the Treehouse
open? We might go to the Medical Center to eat, or maybe pizza, Togo's, or some
local place.
13:00 --- Introductions, Announcements,
Rumors, and Random Access
13:30 --- Lessons Learned from Forth Day
2009 - All Assembled Provide your input and suggestions to make
Forth Day 2010 better. Your emails are welcome if you can't come to the
meeting.
14:30 --- Break
15:00 --- Digital Optical Transceiver
Project - Samuel A. Falvo II "Just last night, I completed the
first link test - a continuous stream of '0' bits - with a user interface for
the gathered telemetry written in Forth. Currently, the code's most interesting
feature is its CRC-8-ATM calculation and the quasi-PPP-like framing. However,
due to unforeseen problems in getting the USB link working correctly, it
appears that I'll need to adopt a real HDLC interface to the PC. So far,
I'm receiving zero errors on the link with the long loopy wires, but
quite a number of errors on the USB link with its shielded cable and twisted
pair core! I'm still confused about this behavior, but implementing proper
connected-mode HDLC behavior will resolve this set-back."
"So, by the time the December SVFIG meeting
rolls around, I should have a simplistic HDLC networking stack
implemented in both the microcontroller and in ANSI Forth code."
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 January:
Coming to SVFIG:
-
Engineering TV Fifty engineering
topic channels, four new episodes per week.
-
Botbash 2000 Video A cheapie video
of a May 2000 robot rumble in Mesa, AZ.
-
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.
Solicitations for presentations and
assistance:
-
Mitch Bradley's Forth in C A
volunteer is needed to present and demonstrate this software.
-
PowerMops Forth for the Mac -
Kevin Appert Kevin Appert: "Mops
is an open-source, full-featured, object-oriented stand-alone programming
language for Mac OS X descended from the much-beloved NEON. I now have a
working installation and when I know enough to do a good demo, Ill be
doing a talk. Id be grateful for any help and advice from anyone familiar
with PowerMOPS.
- PowerMops on
SourceForge
-
Carbon Mac Forth - Kevin
Appert Kevin Appert: "Mac Forth
was the first programming language used on the bench to bring up the Mac and
the first programming language with Mac API available to the public. I have
substantial interest in the current version, Carbon Mac Forth and Im
hoping to do what I can to promote it. I'm unable to contact Ward McFarland,
the Carbon MacForth guy. If anybody knows a good way to buy a copy, please fill
me in! His email appears full and he doesn't reply. The phone number is out of
service, but the website is still up. Im hoping that if Carbon Mac Forth
is now an orphan, we can make all the source and executable available on our
website.
Please indicate your interest for these
topics:
If you have anything you'd
like to talk about in December, please contact Kevin
Appert. |