June 2018 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

SVFIG on Google+ Hangout: long url - tinyurl

SVFIG on Google+ - SVFIG on YouTube - SVFIG on YouTube Live

SVFIG YouTube Channel

Videos: morning (0:47:55) - afternoon (3:10:47)

10:00

Coffee and a Chat

Not presented

Why Does Distance Impact Communication Speeds? - Samuel A. Falvo II
“I’ll revisit some of my old Project DOT material to explain why range matters in communications transfer rates and circuit designs.”

10:30

MicroRNA Studies - CH Ting
"I am searching microRNAs in the genomes of human, mouse, and nematode as well as microRNAs in mitochondria of all species. I would like to share some interesting findings."

Slides - 235 Kb pdf file

11:30

Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at The Treehouse.

13:00

Nike Hercules Surface to Air Missile System and a Game - Ed Thelen
Ed will engage us with a simulation of the Battery Control Officer's view of Nike missile counter-attack.

Slides - 2.36 Mb pdf file

A Nike Simulation "Game"

14:00

Update on the IBM 1130 Forth Project - Carl Claunch
Carl will update us on his discovery of early Forth software and discuss his findings after studying and running the code.

IBM 1130 replica running program loop (video 0:20)

14:15

EForth on STM32F103 Blue Pill Board - Dwight Elvey
Dwight will talk and demonstrate his implementation of EForth on the low cost ARM "Blue Pill" board.

EForth for the Blue Pill with STM32F103

STM32 Blue Pill ARM development board

Blue Pill Board on AliExpress

14:46

Parsing in a Dark and Grammar-less World - Brad Nelson
"While Forth usually eschews the rigid confines of a language grammar, this can be easily rectified. Wise luminaries like Bradford Rodriguez have shown parsing can be added to Forth in as little as one block. I'll explore extending this approach to modern Forths and have some fun with making Forth slightly more grammatical."

Slides

Forth Parser code on GitHub

BNF Parser in Forth - Brad Rodriguez

15:26

Haiku Update - Brad Nelson
Brad will show recent submissions to the Haiku website.

15:29

Google I/O Photos - Dennis Ruffer
Dennis will show photos from the recent Google I/O event.

Slides - 1.83 Mb pdf file

On Google Drive

15:38

A Day at the Maker Faire - John Glauvitz
Dennis will show photos from the Maker Faire.

Slides - 4.88 Mb pdf file

tActigon - motion sensor

Spresence - wireless speakers

Walabot - 3D imaging sensor

Movi - speech recognizer & synthesizer for Arduino

Hexabitz - electronics prototyping system

TinyFPGA - low-cost open-source FPGA boards

Particle - IOT platform

E-ale.org - Embedded Linux seminars

DIY Robocars - Autonomous cars

Postponed

A Day at the Electronic Fleamarket - Dave Jaffe
The Last Day at Weird Stuff Warehouse
Adam Savage’s Maker Faire 2018 presentation

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn

Other items:

Forth

7th Programming Language - Otmar Klenk

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

Forth CPUs

Forth Articles and Blogs

Forth Programming Books

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Other Jobs

Green Arrays

Forth People

Misc Forth Stuff

FIGnition FUZE DIY Forth computer

SPIDriver: coded in MyForth - James Bowman

USB-to-SPI adapter with a built-in signal-analyzer display - James Bowman

Computers

Chips

Components

Old Style (Mechanical) Zero Set Switch

Software Applications

Space Applications

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Utilities

The real power of Linux executables

Hardware

Other Books

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

How Making Things Simpler Made Them Faster & More Efficient - Richard Baguley

How to Share Large Files over the Internet

Chip Hall of Fame: Computer Cowboys Sh-Boom Processor

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

Google Web Assembly Languages photo - with Forth

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

The Evolution of the Macintosh

Classic HP 35 calculator comes back to life

Re-creating the First Flip-Flop

Commodore 64 owners rejoice: The 1541 is BACK

Remembering PC Mag Editors

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

Adam Savage at Maker Faire - The importance of sharing (video 14:23)

Mary Kenneth Keller - first woman to earn a CS PhD - Wikipedia - CSAIL at MIT