February 2014 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others


SVFIG on Google+ Hangout- long url - tinyurl

Videos - morning (55:55) - afternoon (1:53:01)

10:00

Coffee and a Chat

10:30

Forth: A New Hope - Sam Putman
A proposal for a new Forth implementation. Survey includes Unix native behavior, annotative inferential typing, and modular package management. Concludes with a discussion of new hardware architectures and their relevance to Forth.

Slides

11:30

Lunch
We ate at the Treehouse.

13:00

What's New? - Kevin Appert
Processors with WiFi, little radio link boards, product tutorials at DigiKey, bring your favorite new thing and we'll go around the room.

13:30

ARD101 Tutorial Conversion to eForth for Maker Faire - Dennis A. Ruffer
Inspired by a sale of the OSEPP 101 Arduino Basics Starter Kit at Fry's, Dennis is translating the sketchy code of the example projects into Forth.

ARD101Preliminary.zip
ARD101 Tutorial Conversion - 2.86 Mb pdf file
button.txt
cycle.txt
flasher.txt - CH Ting
game.txt

14:30

Break

14:50

Arduino Workshop - CHTing

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn


Other items:

Forth
AmForth for Arduino
Forth for MSP430
Forth Tutorials
Forth CPUs
Chips
Adapteva Epiphany - 16 RISC cores, 100 Gflops, 5 Watts, $200
Parallella
Computers
OSEPP 101 Arduino Basics Starter Kit
Spark Core Tiny WiFi development board - $39 -- kit - $99
mbed boards
Electris Imp
One Laptop Per Child on eBay
Arduino Starter Kit - OSEPP 101 - OSEPP 201
Get started with Arduino and Simulink
Software
IntervalZero RTX real-time kernel - runs under Windows
EXPRESS Event Management and Control
FORTH, Inc.
Forth Dimensions
SCADA in Forth - EXPRESS in polyFORTH - Dennis Ruffer
Technical Manual
Programming Languages other than Forth
Utilities
Hardware
Tektronix MDO3000 Oscilloscope
SPI programmable digital transceiver - specifications
RF Evaluation and Development Kits, Boards
CC1101 - Low-power sub 1 Ghz RF transceiver - Digi-Key
WM-G-MR-09 WIFI Module - $16.50
RF transceivers
Webservers - Stanford - Atmel AVR Embedded Web Server Board
Keyboards: Tiny USB - Tiny with no Windows key - Lenovo USB with Trackpoint
Pololu AVR programmer
Forth Programming Books
Other Books
Manuals
Forth Articles
Articles
Programming the Arduino in AmForth - Craig A. Lindley
First 3 pages of Servo article
Source code
The Quantum Quest for a Revolutionary Computer
Reinventing the Oscilloscope
Why Concatenative Programming Matters
WiFi board combines Arduino with Linux for easy M2M use
Purcell Simplied or Magnetism, Radiation, and Relativity
Call for Hams and Hackers: Welcome ICE/ISEE-3 Home
Walgreens Employee Mixes Up Prescriptions
Stores
Robots
Games
Companies
Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
Computer Scientist / Embedded Systems Programmer - Science System and Applications, Inc. - Hampton, VA
Incident Response Associate Job - Bechtel - San Francisco, CA
Incident Response Analyst Job - Bechtel - San Francisco, CA
Malware Analyst Job - Bechtel - San Francisco, CA
Lectures
People
Green Arrays
Surplus Houses
Meetings
Videos
Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize Power - Chuck Moore (video 52:07)
Courses
Trade Shows
Podcasts
Personal Computer History
Tutorials
Git - a reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool
Stacker: An Example Of Using LLVM (formerly Low Level Virtual Machine)
Other
SparkTruck
Prescriptions - price comparison
Costco pharmacy prices
Clocks
Tocky - rolling alarm clock
Helicopter alarm clock
Rocket launcher alarm clock
Clocky
Chumby - Wikipedia entry


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