December 2023
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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09:31

Forth Day After-Action Review - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman
Topics discussions included: MeetUp tour of SVFIG, screen capture photo, donations, and comments about Forth Day.

Video (1:12:32)

09:47

Some Examples of Floating Point Conversions - Bill Ragsdale
Bill discussed and demonstrated floating point conversion Forth code.

Video (32:11)

Slides

GitHub

Floats formats

10:33

µEforth on the Pico-iCE - Brad Nelson
"At Forth Day 2023, µEforth Christopher Lozinski generously gifted me a pico-ice which combines the Raspberry Pi Pico processor (RP2040) with an iCE40UP5K FPGA. I've successfully ported µEforth to the pico-ice and am now exploring exposing FPGA functionality to Forth with the goal of eventually generating the config dynamically. I'll discuss the porting process and outline my future plans for the FPGA."

Video (48:07)

Slides

ICE40 Floorplan

Pico-Ice

New pico-ice board combines RP2040 and FPGA

eForth PICO

eForth for the PICO ice

11:03

Walk-ins, Rambles, Rumors, Reminiscences and Introductions- All Attending

Video (1:12:32)

12:04

End of Meeting

Future

Fall Haikus - Brad Nelson
"Using the power of Forth Haikus we'll create seasonal fall images and animations to celebrate Forth Day."

Getting Started with arrayForth - Greg Bailey
"I will present a video on the simple process of downloading, installing, and using arrayForth 3"

AI on CORE I LLMs - Don Golding
Don plans to speak about Large Language Models CORE I basics, features, RISC V, and CORE I circuit board status.

CORE I Applications - Don Golding and Demitri Peynado
“Demitri and I would like to give a quick 15 minute update on CORE I then discuss the possible uses for a CORE I / Forth Computer.”

Direction Finding - Andrew Korsak
Andy is planning to present this application on Forth Day.

Building GUIs in Forth, without the Gunk - Xuyang Chen

Fiji Language - Jack J. Woehr

The Game of Bridgit - Bob Armstrong

Other items:

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

Forth CPUs

Forth Articles and Blogs

Forth Programming Books

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Other Jobs

Green Arrays

Forth People

Products in Forth

Misc Forth Stuff

Computers

Components

Software Applications

The Book of CLAMS (Command Line Algorithmic Music System)

Space Applications

Space stuff

Programming Languages other than Forth

An inclusive digital world starts with a humaine computer language

The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore (with video 4:14)

Operating Systems

Utilities

Hardware

Other Books and Magazines

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

Stanford Lecture: Dr. Don Knuth - Dancing Cells (video 1:38:20)

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

Retro Computing

Hugo Gernsback - The Man Who Invented the Future

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

An Approach to Computing and Sustainability Inspired from Permaculture