December 2014 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout:
long
url - tinyurl
Videos: morning
(1:01:09) - afternoon
(1:41:20) |
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10:00 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:15 |
Machine Forth Compiler for the RISC-V Architecture -
Samuel A. Falvo II
"What have I been working on? Another Machine
Forth compiler, this time for the RISC-V architecture. It's written in C, but
out of necessity: I need a compiler that works both on my Linux box and my
MacBook Pro, and since I've been unsuccessful in getting any Forth environment
running under MacOS Yosemite (thank you Apple for once again finding a way to
make my life a living misery in the most interesting of ways). The C code works
well on both platforms. It's not finished (it doesn't yet generate any output
binaries) and is incomplete (it can't yet add two numbers, but it might by the
time the SVFIG meeting rolls around; we'll see), but the skeleton of the
environment seems to be up and running, and is easily extended."
- RISCV - Sam's processor
architecture for the Kestrel
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12:00 |
Lunch
We ate at the
Stanford Coffee House.
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13:00 |
Introductions, Rumors, and Gossip |
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13:20 |
Interesting Things, Volume 20 - Dave Jaffe
Dave
continued his survey of interesting newly-introduced microcontrollers, I/O
peripherals, sensors, products, and gadgets that can provide useful and unique
capabilities to Forth embedded systems.
- Slides - 643 Kb pdf
file
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14:00 |
Forth for the Raspberry Pi -
The goal of this
session will be to present a short guide to the various Forth packages
available for the Raspberry Pi. The results will be posted on the SVFIG
website. Brad Nelson gave a brief presentation about his Raspberry Pi
system. |
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15:00 |
Break |
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15:100 |
SVFIG Film Festival - Engineering Videos, SVFIG Meeting
Reruns Suggested items included:
We did not visit the
Women and the
Great War exhibit at the Hoover Pavilion |
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn |
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Zen of LaunchPad - CH Ting
- Slides - 589 Kb pdf file
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Other items:
- Forth
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- Forth Programming Books
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Senior
Software Engineer - Low-level Systems - Amazon Corporate LLC - Seattle,
WA
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Computers
- Chips
- Components
- Raspberry Pi - these folks have a
case & heatsink for the
naked board (video)
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Tektronix
escape codes -
text -
VT100
- ICEdot Crash
Sensor (bluetooth link from your bike helmet to your cell phone)
- Other Books
- Manuals
- Articles
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Tutorials
- Other
- Track
Stolen Bikes and More with StickR TrackR
- Plug-and-Play
LED replacement for T8 fluorescent tubes
- Word
Crimes video (Weird Al)
- Error
code 418
- "Literally"
used for emphasis
- Advanced
IP Scanner
- "Beware
of Invisible Cows"
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