April 2006 Meeting Notes

10:00

Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and Pastries

10:15

Programming Challenge: Sudoku - CH Ting
Bring in your computer with favorite Forth system and let us try to solve the Sudoku puzzle. You are also welcome to work out your solution at home and demonstrate it. Sudoku is not a difficult problem, and generally there are many, many correct solutions to a preset pattern. The real challenge is to find ALL the correct solutions.

12:00

Lunch - go to TOGO's or bring your own food and stay at Cogswell

13:30

Technology of the Month & Interesting Items from ESC - Dave Jaffe
Dave will survey some of the many new products were shown at the Embedded Systems Conference. Other conference attendees are welcome to pass along items that caught their eye for inclusion in this presentation.

Presentation in PDF

15:00

The Future? - All Assembled

• Planning for Forth Day 2006 in November
• Future field trips?
  • Computer History Museum - IBM Restoration Project
  • The remodeled and expanded DigiBarn
  • Moffett Field Museum
• Future Meetings?

Items discussed:

Win32Forth Sodoku directory on SourceForge

IntellaSys White Paper in PDF - A 21st Century Sea Change Taking Place in Embedded Microprocessors

Doug Dillon's Sodoku Solver Program in SwiftForth

MaxStream ZigBee Evaluation Kit - purchased by John Hall

Global Spec's Brain Strainer online game

Klaus Flesch's wireless product using Forth at Embedded Systems Conference
FS Forth-Systeme GmbH

RFID-proof devices

FARM - Forth for ARM processor

From Kevin Appert:

Circuit Cellar - Low-Cost 2.4-GHz Spectrum Analyzer

Abstract

PDF

Circuit Cellar - Source Code Index

Ken Merk's article: Monitor and Control with Text Messaging

Abstract

Source code

Flashlite 186 Single Board computer

Forth 83 for Flashlite 186

Forths for TI's MSP430

430 v4th

Swiftx

ZigBee Home Control

Hawking HomeRemote

Freescale News Release

Datasheet archives

AllDatasheet

DatasheetCatalog

Parts search on DigiKey

FindChips - price and availability

Datasheet4U

DatasheetArchive

ChipManuals

GetDatasheet

SIFT Algorithm Links

Google search

Tool for stitching two photos together

Wikipedia article

Demo Software: SIFT Keypoint Detector

Structure from Motion using SIFT features