February 2009 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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10:00
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Coffee and a Chat
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10:15
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eForth in C - CH Ting
"I decided to bite the bullet and learn C to rewrite eForth. I bought the
book,
C
Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Michael Vine, and started from
Chapter 1. I got gcc, M4, and MAKE with cygwin on my PC. I think it is probably
easier to work with cygwin than MicroVision from Keil."
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11:40
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Lunch
Lunch on-campus. To avoid the "noon lemming effect", we'll leave a
little early.
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13:00
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Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, Random
Access
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13:22
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Developing Working, Hard Real-Time,
Deep-Embedded Software for the Intellasys Platform - Samuel A. Falvo
II
Interactive testing requires intrusive artifacts on the Intellasys platform,
which may interfere with cores important to the functioning of the rest of the
chip. Using light-weight formal methods within an iterative development process
helps guarantee successful software with minimal debugging infrastructure and
effort.
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14:27
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Engineering TV
Fifty engineering topic channels. Four new episodes per week. It worked last
time, and some of the stuff is pretty cool!
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14:46
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Break
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15:00
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Interesting Items - Volume 13 - Dave
Jaffe
Dave will continue 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. If anyone has come across
anything that fits this category, pass them along to him for inclusion in his
presentation.
- Slides
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15:30
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Adjourn
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15:30
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Indoctrinate U - Extra Bonus Footage
There are a couple of clips on the DVD which weren't shown last month. It's a
little off-topic but important! Note that this version of
Indoctrinate U contans
explicit language. There will be no Forth discussed afterwards, so if you're
not interested, you're free to leave.
- "Speech codes. Censorship. Enforced political conformity. Hostility to
diversity of opinion. Sensitivity training. We usually associate such things
totalitarian regimes, not with the American universities that nurtured the free
speech movement."
Documentary filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney investigates political
censorship at colleges and universities in the US.
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16:00
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Adjourn
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Other items:
Forth
- Forth Lessons
Other
- Sandisk V-Mate
- CEL
ZigBee Solutions
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