February 2016 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout:
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url - tinyurl
Videos: morning
(1:29:09) - afternoon
(2:58:25) |
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10:00 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:20 |
VHDL/FPGA implementation of 8080 - CH
Ting
"James Bowman gave a very inspiring talk last month about an 8080
simulator. I thought that if the 8080 were such a simple CPU as he mentioned, I
could easily design it in VHDL and FPGA. I am trying to modify my eP16 model to
execute the 8080 instruction set and have done most of the VHDL coding. It is
much more complicated than what I envisioned, so it will take some time to have
it completely debugged."
Please remember that this is a work-in-progress and not a
finished project!
- Tools
Lattice XP2 Brevia Dev Kit (Target which Ting used for his 8080 xp2-5e
6tn144c)
- XP2-5E-B2-EVN
- XP2-5E-6TN144C
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11:30 |
Lunch
We ate at
The Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
Introduction, Rumors, Gossip, and New Things |
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13:30 |
SwapForth on a $2 WiFi module - James
Bowman
James will describe his port of his SwapForth onto the ESP8266, a
self contained SOC with an integrated TCP/IP protocol stack that can give any
microcontroller access to a WiFi network. The ESP8266 is capable of hosting an
application, such as SwapForth.
- ESP8266
- SwapForth
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14:00 |
Running Pthreads under Gforth - John
Harbold
John will present an overview on this topic. |
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14:30 |
Break |
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14:40 |
Tethered Forth File System - Andreas
Wagner
"Are you too impatient to re-upload your code or too
sophisticated to use block editor? If so, try a tethered Forth File System.
With it, you can mount your (small) microcontroller's address spaces as a file
system on your (big) computer. DEFER fetch/store and key/emit to run ForthFS
over any storage medium or peripheral and through any communications
medium." |
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15:20 |
An Ubuntu Instance on the Web - Dennis A.
Ruffer
Dennis will talk about https://koding.com
"Not a lot to talk about
yet another Ubuntu instance, but the fact that it is in the web and doesn't
take a virtual machine to run it is intriguing to me. They do have a way to
"share" a session with others, which might be interesting if anyone is willing
and able to do it with me."
- Ubuntu in your browser,
collaborative development environment on the web
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn |
Other items:
- Forth
- Ninth Forth for OS-9 on
MC6809 with emulation by Microware
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- IntellaSys
SEK 40C18 Data Sheet
- Files
related to IntellaSys and VentureForth
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- A
Microcontroller for Everyone - CH Ting - for Maker Faire 2011
- Forth Programming Books
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Computers
- Chips
- MIT's
Eyeriss GPU Could Transform IoT, AI
- Open Cores
Light 8080
- OSHchip - with Bluetooth
1.8v
- ARM
Cortex-M0 32 bit processor running at 16 MHz with 2.4 GHz Bluetooth Low Energy
radio
- Components
- Software Applications
- Create native iOS,
Android, Mac, and Windows apps in C#
- Space Applications
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- FreeBASIC
Compiler
- Windows
API Reference
- Operating Systems
- Windows
95 is reborn - in a browser
- Old
OS in a browser
- Utilities
- How
to record your screen for free in Windows
- Hardware
- Shock &
Vibration nData Loggers
- Other Books
- Programming
Windows 95
- MSDN Magazine
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- Artificial
Intelligence and Neural Nets on Small GPUs
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- A Nike
Simulation "Game"
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Charles
Petzold Departing
- Influential
scribe Charles Petzold: How I figured out the Windows API
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- The
Last Audio Cassette Factory (video 3:49)
- Matthias Koch:
Compileroptimierungen für Forth im Microcontroller (English
translation)
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Old
storage devices
- Tutorials
- Blogs
- Other
- SourceForge
commits reputational suicide
- How
To Get Big Sounds from Small Speakers
- Virtual
Hackathon
- You Know
You're an Engineer When...
- Motorcycle-Riding
Humanoid Robot Motorcycle-Riding Humanoid Robot
- Hackathon
- ICFP
programming contest
- Hoover Exhibit Pavillion - Double Exposure:
Russia’s
Secret Police under the Last Tsars opens Thursday, October 29, 2015, and
runs through March 12, 2016.
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