10:00
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Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and
Pastries
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10:15
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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
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Lunch - go to TOGO's or bring your own
food and stay at Cogswell
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13:10
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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
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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."
"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.
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.
The Altera FPGA (2S60) implementation runs at 100 Mhz.
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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