March 2011 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

09:50

Coffee and a Chat

10:00

328eForth for Arduino Uno - CH Ting
Ting has eForth running on the Arduino Uno. To check his work, he has programmed the tone generator, Morse Code keyer, and chronometer applications that Bill Ragsdale demonstrated last month. Ting will discuss several technical issues in this implementation: byte-addressibility, ping-pong buffers for flash programming, etc. The software will be available at the Maker Faire and for download from his website.

Slides - 132 Kb pdf file

11:45

Lunch
We will walk to The Treehouse by Tresidder Union. Here is the menu.

13:00

Introductions, announcements, and discussion - All assembled
Everyone introduced themselves and recollected the first Forth meeting they attended.

13:30

The Gameduino: A Video Game Adapter for the Arduino - James Bowman
James discussed and emonstrated his latest project, the Gameduino: a video game adapter for the Arduino Uno.

Gameduino on Kickstarter

The J1 Forth CPU, running on an FPGA

Sparkfun Joystick Shield

14:40

Break

15:50

Garbage Collector in Forth - Brad Nelson
Brad briefly demonstrated programs to create and collect garbage.

16:00

Adjourn

Other items:

Forth

Chuck Moore's Weblog

Software

Hardware

Valdocs - Epson QX-10

Forth Programming Books

Articles

The First Plastic Computer Processor

Stores

Games

Companies

What's New at GreenArrays

Forth Jobs

Course lectures

People

Falvotech Blog

Other

BatchPCB - PCB fabricator

Kickstarter - Fund & Follow Creativity

Hackup