June 2017 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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Live
SVFIG YouTube
Channel
Videos: morning (1:02:26) -
afternoon1 (1:37:14) -
afternoon2 (1:24:45) |
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10:30 |
"IoT for Fun! Workshop" Reprise- CH Ting
Ting
will report on his Make Faire Workshop. All 50 kits were awarded and everyone
had a good time.
- Slides - 66.2 Kb pdf
file
- New Offete Enterprises
website
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11:30 |
Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at
The Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip |
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13:15 |
Maker Faire Photos - Dennis Ruffer & Dave
Jaffe
Dennis and Dave will show the photos they took at the Maker
Faire.
- Slides - 4.55 Mb pdf
file
- John
Glauvitz's Maker Faire Photos - Passcode: figmf2017
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13:40 |
Haiku of Things - Brad Nelson
"Having learned
the hard way at Maker Faire that:
Forth_Haiku + Wi-Fi_knob_n_buttons +
>30_WI-FI_networks = DEMOFAIL
Come witness a second attempt! In the
(hopefully) quiescent environment of Stanford, see ESP8266 / ESP32 based
control of Forth Haiku." |
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14:20 |
Break |
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14:30 |
Wishbone B.4 Pipelined Bus Master Circuits - Samuel A.
Falvo II
"I will illustrate one way of building a Wishbone B.4
Pipelined-Mode bus master capable of supporting single-cycle transactions as
well as arbitrary latencies, as well as supporting burst transactions."
- Slides - 6.88 Kb text
file
- Making
a Wishbone B.4 Pipelined Master
- Wishbone B.4
Specification
- The
KCP53010's Load/Store Unit
- KCP53010
Polaris.v
- KCP53010
Seq.v
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15:15 |
GA144 in Action - Michael Schuldt
"I will
demonstrate the work I'm doing on alternative tools for the GA144. This
includes compiler, loader, simulator, editing mode, and graphical
interface."
- Slides - 2.35 Mb pdf
file
- Compiler, loader,
and simulator for the GA144 multi-computer chip
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn
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Other items:
- Forth
- Win32Forth
Version 6.15.04 on SourceForge
- Solo Forth -
Disk-based Forth system for ZX Spectrum 128 and later models
- MPE's
VFX Forth for Windows
- FIG
Forth Vocabulary (for 6502)
- forthkit
- Forth for
the BBC micro:bit
- Easy
Forth by Nick Morgan
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Become
Proficient in Forth with Free Books - OSS Blog
- A
Start with Forth 2017: Forth - Bits and Bites by Juergen Pintaske
- 35
Forth Words as First Entry Application (for "A Start with Forth 2017")
- Forth CPUs
- Mega
Progress Update - Kestrel Computer Project by Samuel A. Falvo II
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- FORTH - An
Application-oriented Language - Programmer's Guide by E.D. Rather & C.
H. Moore - Honeywell 316 Version
- Basic Principles
of FORTH Langauage as Applied to a PDP-11 Computer by E.D. Rather, C.H.
Moore & Jan M. Hollis
- IBM
OS/360 Mainframe Forth
- Evolution of
Forth
- Forth
Redefined
- Writing a
Forth (in Haskel) by Rein Van der Woerd
- Comments about Writing
Forth in Haskell on Hacker News
- Forth Programming Books
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Computers
- PSoC 5LP MCU
Prototyping Kit (CY8CKIT-059) $10
- Intel
Compute Card -
(video
2:30)
- Internet of Things -
Working with Raspberry Pi and Windows 10
- Maker's Guide
to Boards
- Chips
- Components
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- How to
Install Python on Windows
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- How
to Use Wireshark to Capture, Filter, and Inspect Packets
- FastStone Image
Viewer
- Hardware
- Other Books
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- The
JavaScript phenomenon is a mass [I think is supposed to be "mess"]
- Exploring the
Jetson TX2
- Upper Memory
Block - Episode 24: The Incredible Machine
- The
Incredible Machine and a Billiard Ball Computer
- Before
C, What Did You Use?
- Can
this $14 matchbox-sized device fire up America's kids to get coding?
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Making Tools in
Forth (video 13:01)
- Adam
Savage's Maker Faire "Sunday Sermon" -
(video 12:07)
- BBS - The
Documentary
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Vintage
Programming Languages
- The
Retro PIC Single-Board Computer
- CP/M software
website
- The birth of
CBBS, including BYE by Ward Christensen & Randy Suess
- Ward
Christensen
- An
Early Door to Cyberspace: The Community Memory Terminal
- Tutorials
- The
Difference between RS232 And RS485 Serial Interfaces
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
- Dennis
Ruffer's HangoutOnAir Replacements Spreadsheet
- Limericks by Paul Hardy
& Tony Cappellini
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Stanford exhibit explores mid-century modern
design
Q&A
with the curator of the Cantor Arts Center's exhibition Creativity on the
Line - (video 2:41)
- Is there a specific object in the exhibition that
bridges this mid-century era to the past or the future?
- There is one object that is the perfect bridge between
the past and the future, and that is the Altair 8800, designed by H. Edward
Roberts for Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry, or MITS, in 1974. It is the
first computer designed for mass production and is therefore the link between
two very different parts of computer history: one, the workstation / mainframe
computer arrangement (shown in drawings in the exhibition) that until then had
been used in office settings but had not been produced on a really large scale;
and two, the personal computers that we now all own.
- Video of
Altair
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