Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Paul E. Bennett" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Olympic Spririt for Forth Followup-To: comp.lang.forth Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:34:33 +0100 Organization: Hidecs Consultancy Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <2012Oct11.192115@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <7xmwzrm7wf.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <5079ee2d$0$281$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <7xhapyas6q.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <32933940.D9QKNufn74@sunwukong.fritz.box> <2012Oct15.120322@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <46641239-eebb-496b-aa52-2c6d26b161b6@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net M0xQyYVQ3BZTlqRyAowhhQppevGZXi3LlPNio/vGW5mNrmC5qc0osWdiz/oJA398Ch Cancel-Lock: sha1:lchXEAWz2O6HxD49Mh01DpJHOhM= Mail-Copies-To: Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:16305 visualforth@rocketmail.com wrote: > So we are back to START: > "It seems that the community needs to instill the "Inspire a Generation" > spirit that pervaded the London 2012 Olympics event. By this we mean that > we need to raise theons for self express level of enthusiasm for Science, > Technology, Engineering and Mathematics within the upcoming generations > from primary school level upwards." It will obviously take a few add-on boards to help the kick-start projects get the young minds fired up. Such add-ons should have some things that would be desirable add-ons to the initial starter board. How about a double or three digit display add-on, or a relay interface board as a starting point for when they want to go further than the morse code or LED flasher programs. Maybe even stepper motor drivers, simple inter-processor comms modules and encoder input module. With the ability to couple any of that to Lego or Meccano and we begin to get into the area of robotics. > > Let's do it! > > Dirk Bruehl > http://4e4th.com > We are all tolerant - as long as the other behaves as expected! -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett............... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 Tel: +44 (0)1235-510979 Going Forth Safely ..... EBA. www.electric-boat-association.org.uk.. ********************************************************************