META held one of their workshops over the weekend at STEIM. META is a very motivated user driven organization, and its always a pleasure to see their enthusiasm to share knowledge and technology. There is a youtube video of the workshop. I will post it here as soon as I figure out somethings first. link

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.

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