October 2011 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

09:50

Coffee and a Chat

10:00

Bootloaders for Arduino Boards - John E. Harbold & CH Ting
John briefly described his thoughts about creating a Forth dictionary structure in C.

"I am trying to understand the bootloaders used on various Arduino boards, so that I can build a Forth system that can co-exist with Arduino Sketches. The Optiboot for Arduino Uno Board is only 512 bytes long and is not very complicated. So far any change I have made in its source code did not work despite able to compile it with WinAVR gcc." - CH Ting

11:45

Lunch
We ate at the Axe and Palm in the Old Union.

13:00

Introductions, announcements, rumours, and gossip - All assembled
We went around the room and introduced ourselves and each suggested a Forth Day presentation.

13:30

Electric Vehicle Rally Photos - Dave Jaffe
Dave showed the photos he took at September's Electric Car Rally at Palo Alto High.

Slideshow of photos - 774 Kb pdf file

14:00

Kestrel 2 - Samuel A. Falvo II
Sam gave an overview of his Kestrel 2 project and a demo of his progress to date including the software emulation he has constructed.

14:30

Break

14:50

Open Firmware Development Environment - Dennis A. Ruffer
Dennis drew on his long experience as an Open Firmware system developer to describe the software tools and environment he used.

Slides - 534 Kb pdf file

16:00

Adjourn

Other items:

Forth

JFAR and other Forth documents: FLAG - Forth Library Action Group

JFAR archives mirror at FORTH Inc.

Forth Day 2011 Call for Participation on comp.lang.forth

Hartronics - Bit Slice Forth Engine

Computers

Software

Online file conversion

Hardware

Paper Tape Reader

Forth Programming Books

Articles

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Embedded Software Engineer - Adecco - Shelton, CT

Course Lectures

People

GreenArrays

GreenArrays and SchmartBoard Make the GA144 Chip Accessible to Experimenters

SchmartBoard|ez with a GreenArrays GA144 Chip

SchmartBoard|ez without a GreenArrays GA144 Chip

GreenArrays Contest

Fast Start with GreenArrays Software

Meetings

Videos

Other