Re: Forth News from Europe - Video - Olimex - ARM - VFX - Mecrisp and the question: Which other Forths - ANS or not - will run on this NXP LPC1114 platform?

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Date	2015-11-23 10:02 -0800
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Subject	Re: Forth News from Europe - Video - Olimex - ARM - VFX - Mecrisp and the question: Which other Forths - ANS or not - will run on this NXP LPC1114 platform?
From	JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com>

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On Monday, November 23, 2015 at 5:49:54 AM UTC, Paul Rubin wrote:
> JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> writes:
> > Paul, we had to concentrate on the builds, as this is what the
> > activity for the scouts was, and we went in the end for a random
> > flash, which was quite impressive still as you can see in the video.
> 
> Quite understandable, there was an awful lot to do in a short time
> and it's usual to have to leave some things out for next time.
> 
> > And the MSP430 Forth LED Wrist Watch is in the pipeline to finish off
> > MSP430 as wearable.
> 
> Wow!  Which 430 part are you going to use?  I want one of those.  I have
> a TI Chronos watch but it uses a white-on-black LCD display that's
> almost unreadable, and the watch itself is huge and clunky.  So I
> haven't done anything with it.
> 
> > YES, the DIL 1114 board JUST slides in, and with 2 AAA changed to AAAA
> > it can be as well battery operated.
> 
> I see, hmm, it was really nice the way the '2553 board fit in with the
> two AAA cells, which are much easier to find than AAAA's.  Though you
> probably know that you can get AAAA's by taking apart 9V rectangular
> alkaline batteries.
> 
> > DIP first for anybody to replicate the project.  It has to be easily
> > solderable.
> 
> Sure, this makes sense.  I'm ok with soldering some SMT packages but
> they don't go well on breadboards.

Well the MSP430G2553 - same part just small package. As the project grows you can probably see it on the www.forth-ev.de site where the other MicroBox is. HW design is nearly ready. Again fitting into the TicTac box - battery behind the board. 

Are there any contributors around for software?

The implementation  now is 12 LEDs for the hours - the active hour flashes, 5 min steps flash a bit longer, and more to come; e.g.  option egg timer. Just using one port 6 LEDs and another 6 in parallel, either switch on one chain or the other with the other two bits - static  and less resistors than charlieplexing. No 7 segment disply to avoid misunderstandings. 

Regarding ARM: DIL is just to start - TSSOP is solderable and we get the same size board as MSP. As it is flatter, we might get a second board on top   in the same box. We will see.

By the way regarding ARM  - Thursday 26 is HITEX - ARM Day in Warwick - UK, anybody going? I will definitely be there - as are some other Forthers I know who should identify themselves if they so wish.

There I hope to see the new BBC MicroBit in action - ARM based - and ready for Forth???

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