February 2012 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:45 |
Coffee and a Chat |
10:00 |
Planning for SVFIG
MakerFaire Participation
- Masa Kasahara Willing particpants for the May 19th and 20th event
in San Mateo include:
Participant |
Application to show: |
Dennis A. Ruffer |
GA144 Forth applications |
Brad Nelson |
? |
CH Ting |
Forth on an Arduino |
Carl Hansen |
? |
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10:30 |
Reports on the Taiwan FIG Conference and Brevia2 FPGA -
CH Ting
- One Page Forth in JavaScript
- "One very interesting topic presented in Taiwan FIG
Conference was 'One Page Forth in Javascript'. The authors compressed an entire
Forth Virtual Machine, including an interpreter and a compiler, into 58 text
lines on one page."
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- JEForth (in
Chinese)
- Slides
- eP32 on
Brevia2
FPGA Kit
- "I could not get the FTDI drivers to install on my Windows XP
computer. My wife loaned me her Windows 7 computer, on which the drivers
installed properly. The eP32 project was imported for ispLEVEL IDE to the newer
Diamond IDE. eP32 and was successfully synthesized and programmed to Brevia2
Kit. eForth then booted up correctly."
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11:45 |
Lunch We ate at the Treehouse. |
13:00 |
Introductions, announcements, rumours, and gossip -
All assembled Each attendee introduced themself and recalled the
first Forth meeting attended. |
13:05 |
Digital I/O on Green Arrays' GA144 implemented in
polyFORTH - Peter Milford Peter discussed implementing an SPI
interfaced accelerometer on a GA144 evaluation board using Green Arrays' native
polyFORTH.
- Slides - 895 Kb pdf
file
- GA144
Evaluation Board -
Reference
Manual
- CMA3000
accelerometer data sheet
- CMA3000
accelerometer Product Family Specificiation
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13:25 |
Literate Programming - Dennis A.
Ruffer "Literate Programming - Testable documentation --- My ongoing
saga of using Noweb in LyX."
- Slides & software - 97
Kb zip file
- Template - 18.5 Kb pdf
file
- Slides - 75.7 Kb pdf
file
- Noweb - A
Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming
- LyX - The Document
Processor
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14:15 |
Break |
14:20 |
Literate Programming using the Forth Parser - Brad
Nelson Brad presented a small system for literate programming
implemented in Forth. Using Forth's innate parsing flexibility, a literate
programming facility targeting ebook readers can be added with minimal use of
external tools.
- Slides & software - 115
Kb zip file
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15:00 |
Reenginering an RPN calculator - Eric Smith "HP
discontinued the HP-41C family of programmable scientific RPN calculators in
1991. While HP still makes high-end graphing scientific calculators using a
stack-based language called RPL, some users still prefer the relative
simplicity of RPN. Richard Ottosen and I have undertaken to develop an HP-41CX
compatible calculator using state-of-the-art components. I will discuss the
design and demonstrate the current state of development."
- Eric's website
- Hewlett-Packard
Calculators
- i41CX+ -
Programmable & Expandable RPN Scientific Calculator
- Calculator
Implementations Available for the iPhone and iPod Touch
- Sharp Memory LCD
- Videos of LCD
- Sharp Memory LCD
- MSP430 and Sharp2.7
display
- Sharp 2.7" memory LCD
demonstration by Eric Smith
- EFM32
Gecko Microcontroller Family
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16:00 |
Adjourn |
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Other items:
- Forth
- Native Client
Forth
- Android Forth -
Sourceforge Project
- AndroidForth
- CVM-Forth
- CVM-Forth
- Google
search for "run android apps on pc"
- RetroForth
- Computers
- Software
- OpenSCAD - The
Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
- Autodesk free
tools
- Hardware
- Forth Programming Books
- Articles
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Lectures
- People
- GreenArrays
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Books
- Other
- Printrbot - 3D
printer
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