March 2017 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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Videos: morning (1:10:59) - afternoon (3:00:14)

10:30

IoT for Fun at Maker Faire - CH Ting
"After studying the Internet of Things (IoT) for half a year, I have finally realized that Internet is not that difficult. It is complicated because nobody could explain it in a simple way. Its essence can be reduced to Socket Programming! If you learn how to set up sockets, and how to send and receive messages among the sockets, the networking problem is solved. If you start at HTTP, you will never get to the end of it."

"I will do a demo, hopefully. My PC will be a client and 4 ESP kits will be servers, each one would just play one voice. The PC is the conductor, sending out commands to the kits and playing a four-part organ piece by Bach. I got one kit playing now, and hope by the meeting, I will get all four working."

"The PC is running Python 3.6.0, and ESP kits run on MicroPython. Python and MicroPython are easier than you think. Let's have some fun!"

Slides - 244 Kb pdf file

11:30

Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at The Treehouse.

13:00

Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip

13:20

Some Remarkable Women - Kevin Appert
March is Womens' History Month. We'll talk about a few heroes from herstory.

Slides - 113 Kb pdf file

13:45

Reconstructing the Standalone FIG Forth PDP-11 Disk - Paul Hardy
This presentation describes the steps (and missteps) in recreating a raw disk image of the original bootable standalone 8" floppy disk distribution of PDP-11 FIG Forth. The goal is to remain as faithful to the original as possible by piecing together available information.

14:45

Break

15:00

Coming Home - What's Next for the Kestrel Project? - Samuel A. Falvo II
On Kestrel's evolution through 1, 2A, 2B, and the many visions for 3, plus some surprises for what's in store for the project. Is "Ken's Challenge" still on? You bet it is - but not exactly how you might think.

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn

Other items:

Forth

Retro - Forth Programming Environment

FIG-Forth for PDP-11 by Paul Hardy

js Forth fun!

pijFORTHos - A bare-metal Forth operating system for Raspberry Pi

TclForth - A multi-platform desktop Forth

FIG-Forth - CDP1802 IP - Lattice FPGA-Board

FIG-Forth Manual: Documentation and Test in 1802 IP

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

Forth CPUs

Winter for Kestrels: Shutting Down a Dream

Kestrel I Project

Forth Articles and Blogs

Forth Programming Books

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Other Jobs

Green Arrays

Forth People

Jan Shepherd, President of Association Development Center, Inc.

Linda (Baker) Derick & Mitch Derick

Pocket Guide to Forth

MVP-FORTH expert-2 tutorial

FORTH encyclopedia

Misc Forth Stuff

Forth Dimensions Archive

1982 Rochester Forth Conference on Data Bases and Process Control

DELTA: An Expert System for Diesel Elecric Locomotive Repair

Jack Park's Expert System

Computers

icoBoard

BlackIce board

tinyTILE - Intel Curie Module Based Board - $39

A Computer the Size of a Button

Intel and Arduino Introduce Curie-Based Educational Board

Chips

Components

Software Applications

Space Applications

Programming Languages other than Forth

GNU APL

MyHDL - from Python to Silicon

Operating Systems

Utilities

How to Record Your Desktop and Create a Screencast on Windows

Hardware

Other Books

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Accelerometer-Based Gesture Recognition Powered by Potato (video 1:40)

How Aristotle Created the Computer

What to do with 81 Seven-Segment Displays? - Mega Electronic Sudoku

Software 'doctor' prescribes remedies

Matrix method and apparatus for engine analysis

Are You a Maker?

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Mangpo Phitchaya Phothilimthana

Dennis Ruffer's SVFIG Hangouts

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

Open Source & Don Campbell's Fish Scale model of Omniscience (video 5:37) by Bob Armstrong

VCF West XI -- Bob Zeidman – A forensic analysis of DOS and CP/M (video 1:10:07)

Dennis Ruffer's SVFIG Hangouts

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

GRiD Compass

The First Handheld Digital Calculator Celebrates 50 Years, Part 1

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other