July 2008 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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Forth Day 2008
Suggest a speaker or volunteer to speak!
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10:30
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Menu System for Digital Storage
Oscilloscope - CH Ting
"I will present a new menu control system for the digital storage
oscilloscope. I hope that I will get the ADC to work by the July meeting so
that I will be able to demonstrate it. However, I may not be able to get that
far. But, I will definitely get the menu control system done, and show it on
the Olimex SAM7256 board."
- Board uses serial debug port
- Display is an $8 part used by Nokia in their cellphones
- Display is 132 by 132 color pixels=16 characters by 16 lines
- Demos - flag, characters, DSO display, menu
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Noon
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Lunch
A BBQ lunch will be provided by our host in his yard.
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13:10
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Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, Random
Access
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13:30
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Iron Man Museum Tour Planning
A headcount will be taken of those interested in going to the
Hendy Iron Works Museum in
Sunnyvale. It is open to the public by appointment only. A tentative date for
the tour is Monday, August 11th around lunchtime.
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13:15
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Interesting Items - Volume 11 - 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 - 251 Kb PDF file
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14:00
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Audible Computing, Part 4: Searching for the
Perfect Platform - Masa Kasahara
In Part 4, Masa will talk about his quest for the perfect machine to implement
his ideas. It should be small enough to be portable and not too expensive,
either. What do you think he came up with?
- Slides - 97 Kb PDF file
- Sensa
c200
- Rockbox for
Sensa
c200 (zip)
- Sim
W32 for Sensa c200 (zip)
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16:00
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Adjourn
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Other items:
Forth
- Bill Kibler
- Forth page
- Commentary on
Forth Day 1995
- ForthOS
Other
- Henrik's patent:
Universally accessible portable computer
- Telegraph Clacks
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