Ricksmuseum

Afgelopen weekend deed ik mee aan een META Workshop in Amsterdam. META staat voor Making-Electronic-Thingies- in-Amsterdam. De workshop onder leiding van Tom Schouten ging over het genereren van televisie signaal met behulp van de programmeertaal Forth en een PIC chip. Bekijk het filmpje voor een sfeerimpressie.

http://www.makingelectronicthingiesinamsterdam.nl/

Date: 26th-27th of May
Time: 10.00h - 18.00h.
Place: Steim

Subject: Forth TV
This workshop will stand in the light of the forth interpreter on the pic chip. Forth enables you to program your pic life and thus edit and see the changes in behavior right away. By learning to control tv tubes with forth this workshop will cover..

1. introduction forth, the forth toolchain.
1. interactivity, giving commands and updates to a live system
2. modularity, solve problems in pieces and interactive testing
2. technical applied,
1. electronic 2 bit DAC with resistors for 4 levels (sync,b/w,grey)
2. logic, PAL sync & stuff
3. software, interrupts (hsync timer) & multitasking
3. individual project, build some pic powered visuals with the knowledge gained.

Forth on Wikipedia.

Teacher: Tom Schouten
Tom Schouten is an independent software developer and artist based in Leuven, Belgium. His main interests are in generative systems, more specificly programs and devices that produce artistic works. His current efforts are concentrated on creating a series of special purpose programming languages. One of them is based on FORTH and runs on a pic microcontroller.
Tom at goto10

Participants:

1. Niels Wolf
2. Heerko van der Kooij
3. Marc Boon
4. Joost Broersen
5. Sylvain Vriens
6. Rick Companje
7. Kwon Byung Jun
8. Dirk van Oosterbosch
9. Jan-Kees van Kampen
10. Aymeric Mansoux
11. Pieter Heremans
12. Roger Muskee
13. Sander Trispel
14. Marloes de Valk
15. Bart Gloudemans

ForthTVCode produced during the workshop.