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
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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
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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)
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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.
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15:55 |
Clean Up |
16:00 |
Adjourn |
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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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