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10:00 |
Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and Pastries |
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10:15 |
Revisiting Game of Life - CH Ting
"A while
ago, I saw a very nice game of Life display in one of my favorite electronics
shops, Anchor Electronics, at 2040 Walsh Ave in Santa Clara. It is a 16x16 LED
panel, showing many sequences of the game of Life from different starting
patterns. I was surprised at how well the display runs with only a 16x16
display. I will try to recreate it and show it in the meeting. I hope members
will bring their own implementations to the meeting to share."
- Anchor
Electronics
- Game of Life
Overview
- John Conway's
Game of Life
- Life in Forth - Listing was published in September 1980 Byte
Magazine
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12:00 |
Lunch - go to TOGO's or bring your own food and stay at
Cogswell |
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13:10 |
What Happened at the Maker Faire? - Dave Jaffe
Dave will review, through photographs, the many activities, exhibits, products,
and demonstrations that occurred at this extraordinary event. SVFIG may want to
consider participating there next year.
- Maker Faire
- Zap Xebra
electric vehicle
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15:30 |
IntellaSys Presentations - Jeff Fox, Doug Dillon, and
John Rible
"Jeff, Doug, and John will VentureForth(tm) over the SEA(tm)
of processors that the folks at IntellaSys have been creating over the last few
years. The talks will present an insider's view of the hardware and software,
giving an introduction to the systems and applications due out later this
year."
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"A" chips will run at 1 Ghz, has 24 processors, has 64 Kb of
ROM and 64K of RAM, haas 80 pins, less than 10 mm by 10 mm die size, implement
SPI in software, have A/D and D/A, external memory interface, boot from RA,
ROM, or SPI. The "B" chip will have 40 processors, 100 pins, and more I/O.
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One application discussed is a wireless home theatre system
with a speaker tuning network designed to compensate for the speaker and
listener position in the room.
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The Altera FPGA (2S60) implementation runs at 100 Mhz.
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ColorForth is 12K, consists of a 1 Kb kernel, and will be
made public.
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Other items discussed:
- 8051 variants:
- Philips
- Keil - List of devices
available from Philips
- Free example
programs
- FindChips.com
searches distributor inventory for all types of electronics, including
passives, connectors, optoelectronics, and more
- Surface mount hot air
gun
- Nuts and Volts
Magazine - Advertisers
- Lemos International -
wireless products
- HP-75
Forth
- Soduku
article in Scientific American
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From Kevin Appert and George Perry:
- San
Francisco Peregrine Falcon Nest Cam
- RocketBoom - Video Blog
on Technology, Art, Stuff
- Google Video
Search
- Robot Mule
- Berkeley Public Library
Tool Lending Library
- Limit Eminent
Domain
- Bill Hicks - stand-up comedian, satirist, and social critic
- Amazon
- Wikipedia listing
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