Launching Tachyon Forth Sourceforge page for the Parallax P1 & P2 realtime multi-core MCUs

For many years I have hosted code on my publicly shared Tachyon Dropbox folder, and even various Google documents.

Well, that was easy for me and all my PCs would synch automatically but it was only a repository, not a web presence but I was busy developing Tachyon, and hardware, and commerical products, so I left it at that for several years.

Recently I have been using Mecrisp Forth that is hosted on Sourceforge by Mattias Koch. I had a need for a tiny support mcu that happened to be an ARM M0 core with plenty of Flash and enough RAM to host an interactive Forth, so I thought I would use Forth for its firmware rather than struggling with assembly or C libraries.

The reasoning was simple, with a Forth kernel I could communicate and load new firmware with little more than a serial link, either from my P2 that it was supporting, or directly to the PC. I didn't need any other tools or compilers, the Forth was the compiler. In the process I found myself using Sourceforge features such as the discussion forum and documentation pages.

It was quite logical to go the next step and create a Tachyon page myself and try it out. Well, here we are.
Over the next few weeks I will be populating this site with many examples but I could also do with feedback, perhaps while you are using or trying to use Tachyon on the P1 or P2. If you need hardware you can checkout Parallax.com but also I manufacture amongst other things, the compact P2D2 module designed for plugging into an application specific motherboard, or perhaps just into matrix board, or even stand-alone with nothing more than a USB cable to your PC.

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[Art Kennedy]

Where would I find details on the P2D2?

[Peter Jakacki]

I'm just getting ready to update this site and noticed your message. Maybe you have found the information already but here is a pubdoc which also needs to be updated :)