April 2012 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:45 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:00 |
Three Topics - CH Ting
- New Tunes for Tang Poems
- Four Tanjing (Platform Sutra) Versions in Excel
- Translating Bach Cantatas to Chinese
"I am working intensely on translating 300 Bach's Cantatas from
German to Chinese. It will take at least three months to finish the first
draft. I will talk a little bit about the translation process. It is basically
an engineering problem."
Five books being printed:
- New Tunes for the Old Tang Poems
- Tao of Arduino
- Forth as an Arduino Sketch
- eP32 in VHDL
- eP16 in VHDL
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11:45 |
Lunch
We ate at the Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
Introductions, announcements, rumours, and gossip -
All assembled
Maker Faire, Embedded Systems Conference, and random
discourse! |
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13:20 |
Review of Cool Product Expo - Dave Jaffe
Dave
will describe some of the interesting devices that were on display at this
annual Stanford event.
- Slides - 359 Kb pdf file
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13:40 |
More on Bootable Gforth - John E. Harbold
John
will describe his continuing efforts to make a bootable Gforth for x86/x86 64
bit machines. |
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14:00 |
Break |
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14:10 |
Hardware abstraction for fun and Profit: Forth and C, on the
ARM Cortex-M3 - Robert Sexton
Every Cortex-M3 on the market
requires unique start-up and peripheral initialization code that is
vendor-supplied. Re-coding these in Forth is time-consuming and error-prone.
The presentation will describe a partitioning scheme that uses C to get Forth
up and going faster so you get to work on application development.
- Slides - 9.7 Mb pdf
file
- Riscy Pygness for the
Cortex-M3
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14:50 |
Kozio - Dennis A.
Ruffer
Dennis will offer a few words about this firm which offers design
verification and test software and services for embedded systems. |
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15:10 |
Fluent Interfaces - What They Really Are - Samuel A.
Falvo II
Domain specific languages are all the rage these days,
particularly as people learn to use the features of object-oriented languages
to write more natural-looking, and certainly easier to maintain, software. I'll
explain what a fluent interface is at a highlevel, at the low-level, and just
one possible way of making one in Forth.
- Slides - html
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15:55 |
Clean Up |
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16:00 |
Adjourn |
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Other items:
- Forth
- Forth for
the TI MS430 LaunchPad
- One Laptop per
Child - Forth
- Computers
- MSP430
LaunchPad Value Line Development Kit
- MSP430
LaunchPad Wiki
- MSP430 LaunchPad
Portal
- MSP430
LaunchPad at Digi-Key
- MSP-EXP430G2
LaunchPad Development Board
- Software
- The
Best Free Portable Apps for Your Flash Drive Toolkit
- DAEMON
Tools Lite virtual DVD-ROM emulator
- 10
favorite freeware tools for IT pros
- The
five best emergency toolkit apps to have in the field
- Hardware
- XBee
Wi-Fi
- RN-XV
WiFly
- FlyPort Wi-Fi
Module
- Radicom USB WiFi
Modem Module
- Chip
Scale Atomic Clock
- Forth Programming Books
- Articles
- Stores
- Robots
- ST
Robotics Introduces New Bench-top Robotic Arm (uses
RoboForth)
- Games
- Companies
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Lectures
- People
- GreenArrays
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Books
- Other
- How to Read QR
Codes on Your PC
- QR code
t-shirt
- QR code on
Wikipedia
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