June 2013 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout-
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Videos -
morning
(1:02:25) -
afternoon
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09:45 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:00 |
C! Almighty - CH Ting
C! (c-store) is the most
powerful command in Forth for Arduino. It takes two parameters: a byte data
followed by the address into which the data is stored. We will use this command
alone for the first three bench experiments. It directly manipulates control
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11:45 |
Lunch
We walked to and ate at the
Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip |
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Forth on the TI Launchpad - Glen Worstell
Glen
talked about various hardware implementations of the Launchpad as well as
versions of Forth that run on them. He will speak about the ARM Cortex M4F
version of the Launchpad at a future meeting.
- Slides - 142 Kb pdf
file
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Forth on the TI Launchpad - Henry Y
Henry
talked about the ioBridge Connect.
- ioBridge
Connect
- Iota
Evaluation Board
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13:20 |
View of a Faire, 2013 - Dave Jaffe
Dave will
share photos from the Maker Faire last month.
- Slides - 1.36 Mb pdf
file
- Slideshow:
Maker Faire Bay Area 2013
- Adam
Savage's talk
- Interesting items from Maker Faire
- Robotis CM-900 - $19.90
- Available from
Robotis Shop
- Manual
- Programming
the ARM M3 Robotis CM-900
- Robotis
CM-900 very cheap, easy, and open source controller
- CM9
Developer World
- Robotis
CM-900: Let the Robot Party Begin
- Xprotolab
mixed signal oscilloscope
- Konashi -
physical computing toolkit for smartphones and tablets
- Logos
Electromechanical - Zigduino R2 (with WiFi) - $70
- Pinoccio - WiFi
battery-powered microcontroller
- BusBoard Prototype
Systems - protoboards
- Arduino Yun
- Arduino
Yun - with WiFi $69
- Arduino
board plugs DIYers into the cloud for $69
- Arduino
Yún and Robot Kit announced
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13:45 |
GA-144 SchmartBoard - Dennis A. Ruffer
Dennis
has life from a GA144 SchmartBoard now! He'll say a little bit about his
progress.
- SchmartBoard
for GA144 chip
- SchmartBoard
with GA144 mounted
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14:15 |
Break |
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14:35 |
Kestrel Past, Present, and Future - Samuel A. Falvo
II
Sam will give a summary of the Kestrel-2's current status, along with
some predictions about what the Kestrel-3 will be like as well. We might even
hear tales of the original Kestrel-1.
- Slides
- online at Falvotech
- Slides - online at
SlideShare
- Reveal-JS (hit
ESC for index page)
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15:15 |
Investigation of Inform7 - Brad Nelson
The
contemporary interactive fiction (text adventure) community has embraced a
novel declarative natural language programming tool called Inform7. This tool
employs a "strong" literate programming approach in which English text is both
source and documentation. Although not Forth, the language and its ecosystem
will be examined in search of ideas and inspiration for the Forth
community.
- Slides
- Inform7
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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
- arrayFactor
- a GA144 simulator, written in Factor, running arrayForth
- F83
- Inside
F83 on Amazon
- 3 Forth-83
standard implementations by Henry Laxon & Mike Perry
- Inside F83 - $25 -
by CH Ting
- ce-Forth for Arduino
- by CH Ting
- MSP-430 hex file -
by CH Ting
- Forth CPUs
- Chips
- Computers
- Mark 1 TTL Forth
Computer
- Mark 2 Forth
Computer
- Kestrel-2 performs pre-Maker
Faire integration test
- Software
- Circuit Lab -
sketch, simulate, and share schematics - online, free
- TINA-TI - TI's
free SPICE-like analog simulator
- Utilities
- Track
down lost Microsoft product keys with ProduKey
- Hardware
- Bootable Business
Card
- Finnix - self-contained,
bootable Linux CD distribution
- Arduino,
Raspberry Pi, or BeagleBone?
- DigiX
is an inexpensive, powerful Arduino-compatible board with onboard
Wi-Fi
- Homemade
GPS Receiver using Forth, FPGA, and Raspberry Pi
- Freescale
Freedom Development Platform -
Datasheet
- TI Cortex
LaunchPad
- Arduino
programmer - $20
- Board with AVR and
Parallax Propeller
- Chameleon
16-bit Development Kit
- Forth Programming Books
- Inside
F83 on Amazon
- Other Books
- Manuals
- Forth Articles
- Forth-based control of an
ion implanter (1989)
- A
Forth Primer - Kitt Peak National Observatory - October 1979
- W. Richard Stevens - author
- Home
page
- Wikipedia entry
- Obituary
- Articles
- Is
Heathkit back?
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- CNE
Developer - Parsons Corporation - Columbia, MD
- Software
Controls / Instrumentation Engineer - Axcelis TechnologiesInc. - Beverly,
MA
- Control
Software Engineer - LightSource Consulting - California
- Jobs at SAIC - Columbia, MD
- Embedded
Programmer
- Embedded
Software Engineer
- Embedded
Computer Scientist
- Journeyman
Embedded Software Engineer
- Lectures
- People
- GreenArrays
- Efficient
Implementation of Cryptographic Primitives on the GA144 Multi-core
Architecture
- SchmartBorad for GA144
- Schmart
Board with GA144 mounted - $34.95
- SchmartBoard|ez
QFN 88 Pins, 0.4mm Pitch with a GreenArrays GA144 Chip
- GA144
SchmartBoard photos by Dennis Ruffer
- Breadboarding
on a Budget
- SchmartBoards
IC Hand Soldering Service
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- ARM TechCon
2013, October 29-31 at the Santa Clara Convention Center
- Podcasts
- Other
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