March 2013 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout-
long
url - tinyurl
Videos -
morning
(part 1) (13:25) -
morning
(part 2) (41:45) -
afternoon
(2:42:55) |
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09:45 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:00 |
Just Peachy - CH Ting
The
peach and plum trees in Brentwood are blossoming. Ting talked about why Chinese
people are in love with peach blossoms and peaches, and showed show a
video.
Ting wrote, "I took seven movements from Schubert's Die Shone
Mullerin, and set the words from the long poem River of Peach
Blossoms to music. I will show a video using this music and background
photographs peach blossoms." |
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11:00 |
GA-144 & Spatial Filtering in Real-Time - John E. Harbold
John discussed how the
GA-144 can be used to perform spatial filtering of images in real-time.
- Slides - 59.3 Kb pdf
file
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11:45 |
Lunch
We walked to and ate at the
Treehouse. |
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12:45 |
Stanford Bookstore
A few folks checked out the
Stanford
Bookstore. |
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13:30 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip |
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13:40 |
Forthasia: A Hardware Composition Based on Several Forth
Kernels - Franklin
Amador
Franklin presented his efforts on simultaneously running
several Forth kernels (Gforth, AMForth, 4e4th, and eForth) on a Raspberry Pi
computer for the sole purpose of integrating it with a Supervisory Control and
Data Acquisition (SCADA) Python package.
- Slides - 1.02 Mb pdf
file
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14:40 |
Break |
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14:40 |
The Computer History Museum Needs You - Kim Harris
As a
docent at the CHM, Kim is in a great position to give us the low-down on what
it's like. Perhaps some of us will join him in turning the crank on the Babbage
Engine.
- Computer History
Museum
- RAMAC
- Colossus
- Bitsavers
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15:00 |
Tesla - The User Experience - Kim Harris
Kim
gave us a little background on his Tesla sedan and told us what it's like to
own one. We had an opportunity to check it out in the parking lot.
- Tesla Motors
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Random Access
Impromptu talks, amiable ambling
discussions, sauntering through news://comp.lang.forth and other
conversations will be offered for your amusement in the interstices if any.
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15:55 |
Clean Up |
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16:00 |
Adjourn |
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Other items:
- Forth
- LaunchPad:
- MSP-EXP430G2
- MSP430 LaunchPad Value Line Development kit - $10
- 4e4th - Forth for Education
on the LaunchPad
- Forth CPUs
- FIGnition:
- Google Group
- Homepage
- FIGnition on
GitHub
- Videos:
- We FIGnition! (2:41)
- FIGnition drone bomber
(0:32)
- FIGnition build
(4:19)
- 'Idiots Guide' to using the
FIGnition 8-bit Computer (14:21)
- Chips
- First
FPGAs from Achronix
- Computers
- Software
- Minecraft
- Minecraft
mod adds programmable 8-bit computer (and Forth)
- Forth Programming Tutorial
Episode 1 - RedPower (video 20:36)
- Utilities
- Hardware
- WYSE
3150SE Winterm Thin Client Terminal - $10 + shipping - 1 left
- Forth Programming Books
- Other Books
- Manuals
- Articles
- MF1600
- Extreme debugging - a tale of microcode and an oven
- Intel
vs. AMD: Battle of the world's smallest PCs
- Propeller
beanie design problem: attaching the propeller to the motor
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Software
Engineer - L-3 Communications - Bristol, PA
- Lectures
- People
- GreenArrays
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Nikola
Tesla vs Thomas Edison. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2.
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Design West -
April 22 - 25 - San Jose Convention Center
- Podcasts
- Other
- "May the 4th
be with you" t-shirt
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- Github:
- GitHub
Review
- How
to use GitHub
- Reasons
to Keep an Eye on GitHub
- Dennie
Ruffer's arrayForth on GitHub
- GitHub GUI:
- Windows
- Mobile
- Mac
- Eclipse
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