September 2017 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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Videos: morning (1:04:06) -
afternoon (2:49:16) |
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10:30 |
Improving Virial Equation of State for Real Gases - CH
Ting
"I researched the Equations of State literature to confirm my
suspicions that most third Virial coefficients are inaccurate. The
Benedict-Webb-Rubin
(BWR) and Benedict-Webb-Rubin- Starling (BWRS) Equations of State are actually
good Virial Equation of States, demonstrating the proper behavior of both the
second and third Virial coefficients. My cubic Virial equation is a very
accurate representation of gas-liquid isotherms, much better than the old
van der Waals
Equation of State."
- Slides - 359 Kb pdf file
- Wang 2200
Basic Computer
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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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13:20 |
Bit-banging VGA with the GA144 - James
Bowman
The GA144 can drive a VGA display at 640x480 with no extra
components. Using an array of nodes as pixel generators creates some
interesting real-time effects.
- Slides with
notes- 5.59 Mb pdf file
- GA144 Note: VGA
Output
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14:20 |
Break with T-Shirt Sales |
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14:45 |
GA144 Simulation and Debug Tools - Michael
Schuldt
"This follow-up of last month's talk will cover a new live node
activity visualization feature of the debug tools. I'll also give an update on
my GA144 smart watch project."
- Slides - Kb pdf file
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15:30 |
Two Brief Items - Samuel A. Falvo II
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Kestrel Update: Introducing the Kestrel-2DX Development
System
"Six years ago, I made the first commit to Github for the
Kestrel-2 computer. Three years ago, I stopped development of the Kestrel-2.
Today, it's back."
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Little-Endian Bitmapped Graphics
"Remember how
easy graphics programming was on the Commodore 64 or Atari 800? Remember how
that was basically lost whenever you tried to treat graphics data with
registers wider than 8-bits? You can get that kind of ease of use back without
sacrificing opportunities for optimizations via wider integer widths ... *IF*
you're willing to think differently about bitmaps."
- Slides - Kb pdf file
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15:45 |
esp32eForth for NodeMCU and wifiboy with ESP32 - Sam
Chen
Sam described and demonstrated this token-threaded Forth.
- Software - 68 Kb text
file
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn
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Other items:
- Forth
- A Forth
Operating System for Raspberry Pi
- A bare-metal
Forth operating system for Raspberry Pi
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- The
next 60 years of Forth - Read Harder
- "Visual"
stack permutation names
- Forth Programming Books
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- GA144 Eval
Blog
- Forth People
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Computers
- PocketBeagle -
$25
- PSoC 5LP MCU
Prototyping Kit (CY8CKIT-059) - $10
- Chips
- Components
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- How
A New Programming Language - Julia - Created By Four Scientists Is Now Used By
The World's Biggest Companies
- GEORGE
Programming Language - Forth-like language for the Deuce computer, the
commercial version of Alan Turing's ACE computer
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- CCleaner
Hacked with Data-Stealing Malware: What to Do Now
- CCleaner
Hack Affects Millions: What You Should Know
- CCleaner
Was Hacked: What You Need to Know
- CCleaner
Hacked, Infecting Millions with Backdoor Malware
- Hardware
- Other Books
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- How
Long Do Solid State Drives Really Last?
- Web of
trust
- Analysis of the strong
set in the PGP web of trust
- Autodesk Threaded
Language Application System Toolkit - John Walker
- Intelligent
motion controller mimics brain's structure - Don Golding
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- The Computer Hack That
Saved Apollo 14 (video 11:21)
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Wordstar on
Wikipedia
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
- Miscellaneous
VCF West pictures (1997-2006)
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