May 2008 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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10:30
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Coffee and a Chat
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10:40
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Forth Day 2008
Suggest a speaker or volunteer to speak!
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11:00
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SP2 - Hardware, Software, and so: Forth
- John Rible
The Extensible SP2 FPGA Forth Processor illustrates hardware as well as
software factoring. We'll wander through the layers and maybe run some code.
Note: the hardware platform is Actel's low power Igloo
$350
demo board.
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Noon
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Lunch
Some folks bring their lunch, some will eat on-campus or nearby.
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13:30
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Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, Random
Access
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14:00
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Cool Stuff at the Maker Faire & Babbage
Engine - Dave Jaffe
Dave will describe, through photos, some of the devices and sights that
impressed him at this month's Maker Faire
and show some images he took of the
Babbage Engine at the
Computer History Museum.
- Slides - 3.45 Mb PDF file
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15:00
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Midi Controller - Michael
Montvelishsky
Michael demonstrated a stand-alone midi controller running on a SeaForth
microcontroller.
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16:00
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Adjourn
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Other items:
Forth
- colorForth for Windows by
Roman Pavlyuk
Other
Here's a short
clip of the Gunn High School robot in action. This was an entry in this
year's USFIRST Robotics Contest. It's mostly remote control with a little bit
of "autonomous" operation at the beginning. The computer and RF link
are supplied to the contestants along with a description of the tasks to be
performed.
Second Life Tech Museum - description -
visit.
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