10:00
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Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and
Pastries
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10:15
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Application Development on the
FORTHstamp - CH Ting
"I will talk about application development on the FORTHstamp, which I
consider to be the best platform for firmware engineering. I will show several
examples and do some demonstrations."
FORTHstamp uses Analog Devices ADuC 7020 microconverter.
Ting has also made a smaller PC board with only 1 A/D pin brought out.
There is a problem with the PC board traces shorting out with the metal backing
of chip.
One can write application programs that can be meta-compiled for running
from ROM at startup.
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12:00
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Lunch - go to TOGO's or bring your own
meal and stay at Cogswell
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13:30
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Forth FPGAs and Robotics - Dave
Wyland
Dave Wyland is a long-time Forth advocate who now spends time with the
Homebrew Robotics Club. He will speak
to us about experiences and opportunities for Forth in FPGAs for robotics
applications.
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14:45
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Interesting Items, Volume 4 - Dave
Jaffe
Dave will continue his survey of interesting newly-introduced microcontrollers,
I/O peripherals, sensors, products, and gadgets that can provide useful and
unique capabilities to Forth embedded systems. If anyone has come across
anything that fits this category, pass them along to him for inclusion in his
presentation.
- Presentation in PDF - 1.11 Mb
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Items discussed:
Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings
http://www.ubuntu.com/
AliceBot
http://www.alicebot.org/
Maker Faire
April 22 -23, 2006
San Mateo Fairgrounds
http://www.makezine.com/faire/
Evolutionary Robotics
Wi-Spy - RF Spectrum Analyzer - $99http://www.metageek.net/
Homebrew Robotics Club
http://www.hbrobotics.org/
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From Kevin: - Electronic Design -
03/16/2006
Preview of the upcoming Embedded System Conference
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=12129
Latest Amateur Radio Satellite Is No Empty Suit
http://www.electronicdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=12096
Bob's Mailbox this month in Pease Porridge
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/12085/12085.html
Antique Collection - HP Oscillators
http://www.elecdesign.com/Files/29/12085/Figure_01.jpg
Bob Pease and Dr. Howard Johnson "Get Real about High Speed Data
Transfer"
http://www.national.com/nationaltv/index.html
National Semiconductor/Electronic Design video pop quiz
http://news.electronicdesign.com/t?ctl=22F41:484C79
- Interesting Advertisements:
Fanless, rugged off-the-shelf embedded PC - 6" cube
http://www.adlinktech.com/PD/web/productline.php
Magnetoresistive field and/or position sensors
http://home.nve.com/Downloads/apps.pdf
TI Evaluation Board for their eZ430 MCU which comes with it's own USB
Development Tool. The whole thing is about the size of a Thumb Drive and sells
for $20.
http://www.ti.com/ez430
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