August 2013 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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Videos - afternoon (3:08:21) |
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09:45 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:00 |
Escher Woodcut - CH Ting
"I have stitched
together the woodcut Metamorphosis III by M. C. Escher. The original woodcut is
22 feet long. I will scroll through it with a fugue from Bach's Music Offering.
The video is about 6 minutes long. I will bring in two picture books of
Escher’s works and talk a little bit about Photoshop and After Effects
from Adobe." |
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11:45 |
Lunch
We walked to the Treehouse in the Tresidder
Memorial Union for lunch. |
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13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip |
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13:20 |
Program the GA144 without Hardware Using Softsim -
John Rible
This not-yet-released update to the Green Arrays software
simulator (Softsim) allows you to "program the GA144 without hardware" for many
applications. John will demonstrate it and look “under-the-hood” to
describe how the 144 asynchronous parallel computers are modeled on a single
serial PC using continuations. |
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14:15 |
Break |
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15:00 |
Silicon Labs C2 Programmer in Forth - Bob Nash
"I have just completed building a Forth-based programmer for Silicon
Laboratories chips that uses their C2 (two wires and a ground)
flash-programming interface. The programmer was needed because the Silicon
Laboratories IDE and hardware programming interface only works on Windows."
- Bob's comments
- Prog C2
Programmer
- MyForth
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15:30 |
Kestrel-2 Update, or Why Operating Systems Exist -
Samuel A. Falvo II
"TL;DR: Kestrel-2 Forth is at a stand-still,
because I'm running out of memory! Yet, I know the Kestrel is capable of
running surprisingly sophisticated software within its 16KB memory space. What
to do?"
- Sam's notes
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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 any interstices. |
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15:55 |
Clean Up |
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16:00 |
Adjourn |
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Other items:
- Forth
- Forth CPUs
- Chips
- Computers
- Pandora Computer
- Software
- Utilities
- SpeedCrunch - a fast, high
precision, and powerful desktop calculator
- Hardware
- VR220 high
resolution head mounted display
- Forth Programming Books
- Other Books
- Manuals
- Forth Articles
- Articles
- Sunnyvale
and Mountain View Public Libraries Get 3D Printers
- My Story: A
Love H8 Relationship
- Run
an old program on a new PC
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Senior
Engineer - Seagate - Longmont, CO
- Engineer
I - Seagate - Longmont, CO
- Lectures
- People
- GreenArrays
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Video
announcement for MakerBot Replicator 2 3D Desktop Printer - (4:04)
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Other
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