October 2015 Meeting Notes

October 2015 Meeting Notes Compiled by Dave Jaffe Contributions from Kevin Appert and others SVFIG on Google+ Hangout: long url - tinyurl Videos: morning (1:25:35) - afternoon (2:02:24)
10:00	Coffee and a Chat
10:10	Using Mecrisp Forth - Glen Worstell "Mecrisp is an excellent Forth implementation that runs out-of-the-box on many low-cost development boards. I will show how to get it going and demonstrate some of its best features. A 'Getting Started' document is coming soon!" Mecrisp Forth
11:30	Lunch We ate at The Treehouse.
13:00	Introductions, Rumors, and Gossip
13:00	Haiku Monthly - Brad Nelson "Join us for another month of Forth Haiku's multi-colored vistas."
13:50	IBM Watson Analytics - Dennis A. Ruffer Dennis explored IBM Watson Analytics. IBM Watson: Smartest Machine Ever Built - Documentary (video 52:14)
14:40	Break
15:00	Forth Day We discussed potential speakers and topics, logistics, and who'll bring the beverages.
15:30	New Things We browsed interesting links, things we saw, news:comp.lang.forth, and the SVFIG mailing list.
16:00	Clean Up and Adjourn
	Ad Hoc - Engineering Videos, SVFIG Meeting Reruns Suggested items included: Engineering TV Weekly Update – 12/18/2014 Randall Munroe (xkcd): TED Talk: Comics that ask "what if?" (video 9:29)
Other items: Forth Mecrisp Forth Forth for MSP430 Forth Tutorials A Beginner's Guide to Forth - Julian V. Noble Forth CPUs Forth Articles and Blogs Forth Programming Books Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer Other Jobs Green Arrays Forth People Julian V. Noble on FIG website- scroll down Google search Taygeta Archive A Beginner's Guide to Forth Misc Forth Stuff NEFIG - New England FIG Computers Single-board computers using ARM CPUs Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents, Second Edition Chips Components Software Applications Space Applications Programming Languages other than Forth Operating Systems Utilities Hardware 37 Sensors for the Arduino - Inexpensive! Samsung Debuts World's Largest Hard Drive - 16 TB Open Source ARM-Based Oscilloscope Gyros from Pololu Other Books Manuals & Documentation Articles Simulated brain cells give robot instinctive navigation skills Applications Stores Robots Games Companies Lectures People Surplus Houses Meetings Videos Clippy videos Clippy Gets Clipped (2001) : Ex-Paperclip 2:05 Bonzi Buddy vs Clippy - Rap Battle More Clippy videos Remington Rand UNIVAC Universal Automatic Computer Commercial (1:59) MythBusters Courses Trade Shows Podcasts Personal Computer History The Golden Age of Electronics Acorn Archimedes Tutorials Engineer's Guide to Signal Conditioning Cheap and Easy WiFi (IoT) Tutorial Part 1 - ESP8266 Setup/Intro (video 31:27) Blogs Other Microsoft Bob American Museum of Tort Law High resolution NASA Apollo / Moon photographs Jerry Ting Nature Photos Photo.net Flickr Polar Bear photo Otter photo This is why I'm broke "Turn the Crank" Historical Radio Museum in Alameda Victory Ship Radio Room Recreation What Off-The-Shelf Item Did the United States Air Force Build a Supercomputer From?

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