April 2022
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

SVFIG on Google+ Hangout: long url - tinyurl

SVFIG on Google+ - SVFIG on YouTube - SVFIG on YouTube Live

SVFIG YouTube Channel

Zoom Chat

09:30

Start of Zoom Session - Kevin Appert

• MV Press update on recycling
• Storage space rent solicitation

09:36

microCore's VHDL Code and Structure - Klaus Schleisiek
Klaus will continue his exploration of his microCore processor.

Video (55:00)

Slides

An Overview of microCore - March 2022 video (40:00)

microCore

microCore documentation

10:23

April Forth Programming Challenge - Wordle Tool Kit - Bill Ragsdale
Pick 20 five letter words. Using a letter frequency table, for each word compute the summation of the frequency of its letters.

Video (23:00)

Participants:

Brad Nelson - slides

Bob Armstrong

Bill Ragsdale

Word List

10:47

CoSy at FunCon 2022 - Bob Armstrong
Bob will provide his observations on his presentation at the Functional Conference 2022, the only one related to Forth.

Video (18:00)

CoSy, evolved from APL via K in open Forth (with video 41:59)

11:05

The Robots of Don Golding - Don Golding
Don will give a presentation describing the robots he built using MaxForth - from educational to military machines. These included an inside-the-pipe inspection robot, a line following warehouse delivery robot, and several research robots.

Video (52:00)

AI & Robotics Facebook Group

Intruder Military Robot Demo Video- All Surface Drive

Archinaut One Video - 3D Printers in Space

11:57

End of Meeting

Other items:

Forth

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

Forth CPUs

Forth Articles and Blogs

Forth Programming Books

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Other Jobs

Green Arrays

Forth People

Products in Forth

Misc Forth Stuff

Computers

Chips

Components

Software Applications

Space Applications

Space stuff

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Utilities

Hardware

Other Books and Magazines

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Applications

A 555 Timer PWM Circuit to Control Ancient Evil

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

Paul Gray PC Museum

Retro Computing

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

How Radio Stations Delivered Printed Newspapers in the 1930s

The First Digital Camera Was the Size of a Toaster