Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day
Date	2015-06-20 15:33 -0700
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JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> writes:
>> Nice!  Is it running a resident MPE Forth on the '2553 part, as
>> indicated by the label?  Or is it 4e4th which is maybe smaller?
> As usual with Forth and especially here, any implementation will do.

Well ok, but I wondered if you were using MPE because 1) I didn't
realize MPE Forth was small enough to run resident on the 2553 (so I
thought maybe you're using a tethered version), and 2) while MPE Forth
is a great product for professional use, if the idea is to empower new
makers/hackers, I think it's best to use completely FOSS software that
they can study and modify and redistribute.

> eForth might be even better as of the 4k footprint, so more space for
> applications.

Wow, I didn't realize eForth was that small.  Interesting.

> MSP430 was chosen as of 20 pins only and availability in a good old
> through hole package - remember, some total beginners will solder here

Yes, it sounded like the main goal was to teach something about
electronics and soldering.  Otherwise it might have been better to use
the Launchpad board or something comparable.  Here are some other
beginning electronic projects that might be of interest:

  https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Circuit_Hacking_Mondays

> Regarding the processor choice: not to forget the tremendous TI
> support - they sent 1000 chips foc -

Yes, it's wonderful to get so much hardware for free.

> Our biggest hardware challenge will be the 1024 unit network (if
> enough scouts get soldering) - all of them connected and controlled
> centrally from one of the same battery driven units.

It will be interesting to hear more about that.  How about something
like a 32x32 Pong game with no central control?  Each unit would be
connected to its neighbors by GPIO, and the paddle and ball locations
would propagate through the network, as would some kind of global "start
new game" command.

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1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-17 14:53 -0700
  Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 00:07 -0700
    Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-18 09:23 -0700
  Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2015-06-19 17:48 +0300
    Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-19 10:46 -0700
      Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2015-06-22 12:43 +0300
  Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-19 21:08 -0700
    Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-19 23:00 -0700
      Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-20 15:33 -0700
        Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-06-20 21:35 -0700
          Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-20 21:57 -0700
        Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-21 00:50 -0700
          Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-21 10:39 -0700
            Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-22 00:13 -0700
              Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-22 12:47 -0700
            Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-06-22 10:46 +0000
        Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-06-21 14:37 +0000
  Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-20 15:20 -0700
  Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-21 19:37 -0700
    Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-22 00:21 -0700
  Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2015-06-23 12:10 +0200
    Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-23 06:09 -0700
      Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-06-23 15:10 -0700
      Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2015-06-24 14:50 +0200
        Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-24 13:57 -0700
          Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-24 17:13 -0700
            Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-25 00:05 -0700
              Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2015-06-25 15:03 +0200
              Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2015-06-25 15:51 +0200
            Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2015-06-25 14:43 +0200
          Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2015-06-25 15:07 +0200
            Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-25 10:36 -0700
              Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2015-06-26 11:15 +0200
              Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2015-06-26 11:21 +0200
                Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-26 07:45 -0700
                Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-26 07:59 -0700
                Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-26 07:51 -0700
                Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-26 13:10 -0700
                Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-26 13:12 -0700
                Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-26 14:54 -0700
                Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-07-19 00:30 -0700
                Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-20 15:18 -0700
  Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-07-21 01:02 -0700
    Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-07-21 10:02 -0700
      Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-07-23 09:11 -0700
        Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-23 15:03 -0700
        Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-07-24 01:13 -0700
          Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-08-04 06:56 -0700
    Re: 1000 Scouts to solder together MSP430 Forth systems - a Forth computer each end of July - and planned to connect them all as a 1000 Bit Display on the last day JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-07-23 09:15 -0700

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