February 2021
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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SVFIG YouTube Channel

Zoom Chat

Closed Captions

09:30

Hacking Farmer's Markets - Review and Update - Mitch Bradley
In October 2020, Mitch told us about his collection of gadgets made from low-cost microprocessors, motors, sensors, and hardware store parts, with simple programming in Forth, that are a great help to small farmers and food producers in Hawaii. He will update us on these projects.

Video (41:30)

10:14

ESP32forth v7 & WebSent - Brad Nelson
Brad will discuss the slide show utility he uses and give an update on the enhancements to ESP32forth.

Slides

Video (33:24)

ESP32forth

WebSent

Takahashi method

sent - Simple plaintext presentation tool

EForth

Forth Haiku Salon

10:48

Jeforth Implementation Issues - Implementing Forth on Javascript - CH Ting
"I will discuss many implementation issues on porting eForth to Javascript, like word objects, dictionary, stacks, memory, browser, files, floating-point numbers, transcendental functions, create-does, and turnkey. Jeforth is by far the simplest, smallest, and prettiest Forth I have ever built."

Slides

Video (1:16:14)

11:21

Forth Programming Challenges - Kevin Appert - Moderator
I would like to brainstorm ideas to suggest to Bill Ragsdale for future Forth Programming Challenges!

USB thermometer interface for logging temperature on Arduino

Temperature sensor on A/D on ESP32

12:05

End of Meeting

Scheduled for March

Leon Wagner - a demonstration of FORTH, Inc's SwiftX® tethered Forth for embedded processors

Other items:

Forth

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

Basic Physics in Forth

Forth CPUs

Forth Articles and Blogs

Forth Programming Books

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Other Jobs

Green Arrays

Forth People

Products in Forth

Misc Forth Stuff

Computers

Chips

Components

Software Applications

Space Applications

Space stuff

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Utilities

Hardware

Other Books and Magazines

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

Courses

Phoscript Tutorials - Liang Ng

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

Retro Computing

PiDP-11: A Pi-Based Replica of the PDP-11/70

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

Google Desktop

Planetary Temperature

Seeed Studio