my father is an active user of your flashforth.
u told me u were even communicating via email about it last year.
he sent me some prepared breadboard with pics and flashforth
from hungary to singapore, so im showcasing it from time to time
in the singapore hackerspace ( http://hackerspace.sg )
we just had an arduino workshop today and i was showing it to
the presenter. he seemed to be pretty surprised and interested
about it.
being just 33yrs old, im already quiet pissed of with the current
situation of IT education. today's kids know shit about it compared
to previous generations.
personally, i find it utterly flagrant that microcontrollers are introduced
thru C programming to youngsters which kindof codifies in their minds
that this is THE ultimate way to go about embedded programming.
so… my idea would be to revive the forth approach at least as an
introductory course in education, but for that, we should make the
flashforth project more modern. what do i mean by that:
having it hosted on sourceforge is a great step ahead.
BUT
- how come the forum is so empty?
- how come the is no contact information for active and professional
users?
- there is no wiki about it
- there is no freenode irc channel for it
- there is no github mirror for it
- maybe a google code repo would be nice too
ppl measure a project severity based on these factors and youngsters
are approaching and discovering software from these directions
nowadays.
==================
my 2nd idea is to grow it to something like arduino.
make a reference board like they did.
something like the basic stamp was, BUT with flashforth
of course.
then we should port drivers of their arduino "compatible" peripherals
into flashforth and this we could piggyback their already well-built
community.
==================
my 3rd idea is to build graphical interfaces for it, so it can connect
microcontrollers to today's desktop computers in cross platform and
very easy way.
my father is already using http://rebol.com for this purpose, but it
should be augmented with some libraries to make it even easier.
let me know what do u think and how can i help to make these
things happen.
tell me what am i wrong about or what u don't agree with.
im more of a software guy, since it was always my father who was
doing the electronics, so my point of view can be quite skewed,
and im very much aware of it, so please correct me when im wrong
about anything!
thanks in advance, professor!
tom
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hello mikael,
my father is an active user of your flashforth.
u told me u were even communicating via email about it last year.
he sent me some prepared breadboard with pics and flashforth
from hungary to singapore, so im showcasing it from time to time
in the singapore hackerspace ( http://hackerspace.sg )
we just had an arduino workshop today and i was showing it to
the presenter. he seemed to be pretty surprised and interested
about it.
being just 33yrs old, im already quiet pissed of with the current
situation of IT education. today's kids know shit about it compared
to previous generations.
personally, i find it utterly flagrant that microcontrollers are introduced
thru C programming to youngsters which kindof codifies in their minds
that this is THE ultimate way to go about embedded programming.
so… my idea would be to revive the forth approach at least as an
introductory course in education, but for that, we should make the
flashforth project more modern. what do i mean by that:
having it hosted on sourceforge is a great step ahead.
BUT
- how come the forum is so empty?
- how come the is no contact information for active and professional
users?
- there is no wiki about it
- there is no freenode irc channel for it
- there is no github mirror for it
- maybe a google code repo would be nice too
ppl measure a project severity based on these factors and youngsters
are approaching and discovering software from these directions
nowadays.
==================
my 2nd idea is to grow it to something like arduino.
make a reference board like they did.
something like the basic stamp was, BUT with flashforth
of course.
then we should port drivers of their arduino "compatible" peripherals
into flashforth and this we could piggyback their already well-built
community.
==================
my 3rd idea is to build graphical interfaces for it, so it can connect
microcontrollers to today's desktop computers in cross platform and
very easy way.
my father is already using http://rebol.com for this purpose, but it
should be augmented with some libraries to make it even easier.
let me know what do u think and how can i help to make these
things happen.
tell me what am i wrong about or what u don't agree with.
im more of a software guy, since it was always my father who was
doing the electronics, so my point of view can be quite skewed,
and im very much aware of it, so please correct me when im wrong
about anything!
thanks in advance, professor!