September 2011 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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10:00 |
Electric Car Rally Some of us met up at Palo Alto
High School for the Electric Car Rally put on by the
Silicon Valley Chapter of the Electric
Car Association. |
11:45 |
Lunch We walked across the street to Town &
Country Village to eat at the Village Cheese
House (a sandwich place) and the
Sushi House. |
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We made our way to the Peterson Building at
Stanford. |
13:00 |
Introductions, announcements, rumours and gossip - All
assembled We went around the room and introduced ourselves and each
talked about the first Forth we used. Suggest a future presentation! |
13:20 |
Arduino eForth, Interactive Mandelbrot Fractals, and
Interactive Digital Chart of the World - CH Ting
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Arduino eForth - "I ported the c-eforth to the
Arduino and got the interpreter. The compiler does not work because the Arduino
process does not provide tools to write flash memory. I'd like to know if this
capability would be useful for Arduino users. I added PEEK and POKE to examine
and control I/O devices. In this implementation C@ and C! access RAM memory
declared as a data array, and are not the same as PEEK and POKE."
Slides - 163 Kb pdf
file
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Interactive Mandelbrot Fractals - "I updated and
simplified the user interface so that one only has to use left mouse clicks to
perform operations."
Slides - 158 Kb pdf
file
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Interactive Digital Charts of the World - "I fixed
the last (hopefully) bug and it works with the new mouse interface as
above."
Slides - 235 Kb pdf file
"I am thinking of releasing Fractals and
Charts as games. I hope to hear opinions from SVFIG members."
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14:20 |
Break |
14:45 |
Interesting Items - Volume 17 - 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.
- Slides - 247 Kb pdf file
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16:00 |
Adjourn |
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Other items:
- Forth
- Online Forth in-browser
(Features Forth and 15 other languages)
- Computers
- Software
- Hardware
- Forth Programming Books
- Articles
- Second-Generation Stack
Computer Architecture - Eric LaForest
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
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FPGA/RTL/Digital
Design Engineer (Communications) - Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories,
Inc. - Burnaby, British Columbia
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Customer
Solution Engineer in Distributed Cloud Computing - GenieDB - San Juan
Capistrano, CA
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Firmware
Engineer - Volt - Santa Ana, CA
- Course Lectures
- People
- GreenArrays
- Meetings
- Videos
- Other
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