July 2012 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout-
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Videos -
morning (1:10:27)
- afternoon
(3:04:07) |
09:45 |
Coffee and a Chat |
10:00 |
Random Access - Everyone present This is an
open time to discuss a variety of topics, some not necessarily
Forth-related. |
10:45 |
DFG Mapping Technique to Multiple Connected Forth Cores -
Aliaksei Chapyzhenka Alexey would like to share some experimental
techniques and tools that allow partitioning of Data Flow Graph (DFG) into
multiple connected processor nodes with further Forth code generation for each
core.
- Slides
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11:15 |
gForth for eCos - The Saga Continues - John E.
Harbold John has been talking to us about his continuing efforts to port
gForth to eCos. This month he'll present GCC's thread local storage (TLS).
- Requirements for Forthh and RTOS Integration - Slides
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11:45 |
Lunch We plan to eat at the Treehouse. |
13:00 |
Introductions, announcements, rumours, and gossip -
All assembled What would you like to do with Forth? What would you
like to learn? |
13:40 |
Forth for the MSP430 - Kevin Appert Kevin will
provide an overview of versions of Forth for the TI MSP430 processor and
LaunchPad board as well as show a demo video for 44th (Four-Euro-Forth)
and code that is available for download.
- YouTube
Video of Ting's presentations (23:40)
- Morse Code on the LaunchPad -
3.1 Kb txt file
- MSP430 LaunchPad sends
Morses code with 44th (0:51)
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14:00 |
MSP430 eForth - CH Ting Although Ting will not
be physically at the meeting, he will pre-record a video demo for viewing and
provide a working eForth to try out.
- YouTube Video
- Slides - 186 Kb pdf file
- MPS430 eForth 1.0 - 43.9 Kb
txt file
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14:20 |
Break |
14:40 |
Type-along SwiftX Demo - Kevin Appert We'll
break up into small groups to download and try out SwiftX for the MSP430
LaunchPad. If you would like to participate, you'll need a laptop with Windows
XP or better.
- FORTH Inc. App Note:
SwiftX Application
Development
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15:00 |
Cleanroom Engineering of a Gap Buffer, Part Two -
Samuel A. Falvo II Last month, Sam was not able to supply GForth
code. This month, Sam will provide a walk-through of the gap buffer's
black-box, state-box, clear-box, and corresponding Forth code.
- Experience with Cleanroom Software Engineering -
Slides
- Cleanroom
Software Engineering: Technology and Process - Prowell, Trammell, Linger
& Poore
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15:55 |
Clean Up |
16:00 |
Adjourn |
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Other items:
- Forth
- Minecraft Forth Programming Tutorial Videos -
Episode 1 -
Episode 2
- Luke Chang's
MSP430 tinyForth (in Chinese)
- CamelForth
- 4E4th
- Forth for Education
- Tethered
Forths
- ARM
Forth
- Forth Library
Action Group
- gForth for the
ARM under Linux
- Forth
for ARM11
- Forth
Language for RPi?
- Computers
- Software
- Hardware
- Bluetooth
Arduino at Fry's
- Cypress
CY14B101P - Non Volatile SPI SRAM at 1 MBit with real time clock and
watchdog timer - $15
- MSP430
- MSP430
LaunchPad
- MSP-430
Launchpad Development Board
- Getting
Started with the MSP430 LaunchPad Workshop
- Configuring
and Using the MSP430 UART
- MSP430 Launchpad police
lights with 4E4th
- MSP430 Launchpad sends
Morse code with 4E4th
- Forth Programming Books
- Articles
- User
interface design consideration for embedded development
- Most
Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- SIE
Test Development Engineer - Seagate - Longmont, CO
- Lectures
- People
- John
Draper, author of Forth 1.7 for the Apple II (1978)
- GreenArrays
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Minecraft Forth Programming Tutorial -
Episode 1 -
Episode 2
- eFORTH
on Arduino - Stroboscope (2:24)
- eFORTH
on Arduino - Playing Pachelbel Canon (3:23)
- Build
a Retro Computer: The Raspberry Pi (video 15:10)
- Books
- Cleanroom
Software Engineering: Technology and Process - Prowell, Trammell, Linger
& Poore
- Courses
- Other
- Hacker Dojo -
Mountain View and San Francisco
- TechShop - Menlo Park,
San Jose, San Francisco
- HomeBrew Robotics
Club
- Bay Area Linux Users
Group
- Sam Falvo's Projects
- Equilibrium
- Unsuitable
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