February 2013 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others


SVFIG on Google+ Hangout- long url - tinyurl

Videos - morning (0:00) - afternoon (1:29:00)

09:45

Coffee and a Chat

10:00

Forth Direct to Arduino - CH Ting
"The Taiwan FIG has modified 328eForth so that it can be loaded directly onto the Arduino system. I will give a short talk on the modification and how to use it."

328eForthDEV0.7.zip

11:00

SVFIG at Maker Faire 2013 - CH Ting
Ting will arrange to get SVFIG a table. We'll discuss what we'll present. Booth volunteers are welcome!

11:45

Lunch
We walked to and ate at the Treehouse.

12:35

The Clock Tower
We took a lunchtime walk to see Stanford's clock tower.

13:30

Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip

14:00

Amazon's Elastic Transcoder - Dennis Ruffer
Dennis is learning about handling the video from his GoPro camera, including using Amazon's Elastic Transcoder. He hopes to have a YouTube movie to show.

Elastic Transcoder
Slides - 2.56 Mb pdf file
Dennis' video

14:40

Rummage Sale - Dennis A. Ruffer
Dennis will be giving away or selling various technology items. If you also have items to sell or give away, bring them along. Please remember that you'll need to take everything home with you if there are no takers - you cannot leave anything behind!

15:00

Break

15:00

Forth on the Web - All present
We'll wander around the web. If you know of something interesting, be sure to make note of it for this session. We visited stops on the Forth Web Ring and Elizabeth Rather's TV interview courtesy of Archive.org.

Elizabeth Rather on Wikipedia
A review of current popular programming languages. (06/25/1984)

Random Access
Impromptu talks, amiable ambling discussions, sauntering through news://comp.lang.forth and other conversations will be offered for your amusement in the interstices if any.

15:55

Clean Up

16:00

Adjourn


Other items:

Forth
isForth Linux 32 bit Forth
Forth CPUs
ShBoom
One of the IEEE Spectrum magazine's "25 Chips that Shook the World"
Make Magazine - 25 Microchips that Shook the World
The heart of patent litigation darkness (2006)
Computer Cowboys Sh-Boom Processor (1988)
Archive - ShBoom website
Archive - Features and Performance
Steamer16
Archive - website
Forthfreak - Forth CPUs
Computers
Software
Program in Forth on an Android 2.2 tablet
reda4 - Programming language derived from colorForth
Fignition
Fignition
'Idiots Guide' to using the Fignition 8 bit computer
FIGnition is built!
Fignition videos by Ashley Feniello
Playing Brikky on the Fignition (1:05)
Even Faster Turtle Graphics on the Fignition (0:50)
An overview of the Vmgen Interpreter Generator
Amazon's Elastic Transcoder (Amazon account required)
Utilities
Hardware
SUPER© video converter
GoPro Hero3 models compared
Ouya - A new kind of video game console
Forth Programming Books
Articles
Help with PWM for controlling servos and speed control with an Arduino
Stores
Robots
Games
Companies
Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
Software Engineer - Nearfield Systems Inc. - Torrance, CA
Novix jobs from 1986 and 1987
Lectures
People
GreenArrays
Surplus Houses
Meetings
Videos
The Pirate Bay: Away From Keyboard
Computer Chronicles with Elizabeth Rather from FORTH, Inc. (1984)
Chase Jarvis LIVE: Oren Klaff
Books
Courses
Podcasts
Manuals
Raspberry Pi Manual
Other
WeVideo collaborative video in the cloud
Hand-soldering surface mounted 88-pin GA144 onto SchmartBoard (1:13)
Mikogo - Remote Desktop, Web Conferencing & Online Meetings
Jollicloud - Manage web apps, files, and services all in the cloud


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