December 2013 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

SVFIG on Google+ Hangout- long url - tinyurl

Videos - morning (53:25) - afternoon (2:19:06)

09:45

Coffee and a Chat

10:00

Actual Quantum Computing Hardware! - Jack Woehr
Jack reported on the latest news from the frontiers of cryogenic quantum computing.

Jack's remote presentation was delivered via a Google+ Hangout from his home in Colorado.

Slides - 714 Kb pdf file

D-Wave Technology Deep Dive

Nova episode mentioning Quantum Computing

Physicists create SQUID-like Bose–Einstein condensate

How Does a Quantum Computer Work?

11:30

Lunch
The Treehouse was closed so we ate at COHO rather than the Cool Cafe.

We did not wander by The Gates of Hell at the Cantor Art Museum.

13:30

Christmas Tree Lights - CH Ting
Ting rearranged his Forth-based LED cube into a Christmas tree. He described his project and gave us a code walk-through and demosnstration.

4x4x4 LED Cube - 4 Kb text file

Christmas Tree - 4 Kb text file

14:10

Programming without Lambdas - Samuel A. Falvo II

Blog on Github

The Declarative, Imperative, then Inquisitive Pattern

15:00

Break

15:20

In Pursuit of a Manual Camera in a World of Webcams - Dennis A. Ruffer
Dennis spoke about the comercial offerings for an optical zoom USB camera.

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn

January's (01/25/2014) tentative SVFIG presentations:

Brad Nelson

John Harbold - Arduino or eCOS

Interesting Items Panel Discussion

Other items:

Forth

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

Forth CPUs

Chips

Computers

Software

Utilities

Hardware

Mixers

RadioShack 4-Channel Stereo Microphone Mixer - $32.99

Behringer MicroMix MX400 Mixer - $19.99

Microphone & headphone adapter for Surface Pro

eBay - $9.99

PCH Cables - $3.45

New Egg - $6.99

Amazon - $6.74

Fry's - $7.99

Forth Programming Books

Other Books

Manuals

Forth Articles

Articles

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Product Development Analyst - Ford Motor Company - Romeo, MI

Lectures

People

Green Arrays

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

The History of Personal Computers - Part 1: The East Coast Version

The mouse that roared, and launched a PC revolution

Other

IEEE 1394 / USB3 Cameras

IEEE 1394 Cameras

USB3 Cameras

See3CAM_80 - 8.0 Mega Pixel Autofocus UVC USB3 Camera