2021-10-13 12:42:46 <xcombelle   > hi
2021-10-13 12:48:30 <f-a         > yo
2021-10-13 13:03:03 <MrMobius    > no maw lately
2021-10-13 13:03:30 <MrMobius    > not that im complaining
2021-10-13 13:44:45 <lispmacs[work]> I did another gemlog post on Punyforth, running on the ESP-12E, for those interested:
2021-10-13 13:44:49 <lispmacs[work]> https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20211013-0.gmi
2021-10-13 13:45:08 <lispmacs[work]> gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/tech/20211013-0.gmi is the raw gemini URL
2021-10-13 13:51:01 <xcombelle   > I try to create a forth from my memory of discover forth 20 years ago and having looked rapidely what is threading code few days ago
2021-10-13 13:52:38 <lispmacs[work]> sorry, is that a statement or a question?
2021-10-13 13:58:17 <f-a         > it is a threat!
2021-10-13 14:05:19 <lispmacs[work]> a threat to create Yet Another Partially Implemented Forth System?
2021-10-13 15:03:04 <xcombelle   > it is a statelent lispmacs[work]
2021-10-13 15:04:24 <lispmacs[work]> I have a copy of Rodriguez's book "Moving Forth" which has been very informative
2021-10-13 15:05:06 <f-a         > nice asciicast
2021-10-13 15:05:28 <lispmacs[work]> thank you
2021-10-13 15:05:54 <f-a         > currently watching: a device getting flashed
2021-10-13 15:17:38 <veltas      > UTF-8
2021-10-13 18:43:20 <f-a         > much fun going through puny forth repo
2021-10-13 18:50:07 <lispmacs[work]> yes, I've been doing that here and there for educational purposes, studying how the forth words are defined
2021-10-13 18:50:51 <f-a         > naive question: what are you using to connect that single board computer to your, uh, real computer?
2021-10-13 18:52:50 <lispmacs[work]> f-a: the ESP-12E board has built-in usb-to-uart, so I just plug in a usb-micro data cable
2021-10-13 18:53:09 <lispmacs[work]> and then fire up sterm to connect to /dev/ttyUSB*
2021-10-13 18:54:09 <f-a         > super
2021-10-13 18:54:25 <lispmacs[work]> I had one of the cheaper ESP modules a while ago that didn't have that, so I had to plug in my own USB to UART adapter and that was a real bother
2021-10-13 18:55:08 <lispmacs[work]> that module also had very little flash memory. but ESP-12E is nice to work with
2021-10-13 18:55:33 <lispmacs[work]> and has 4MB flash memory
2021-10-13 18:58:04 <f-a         > so what exactly happens when you connect via uart?
2021-10-13 18:58:48 <lispmacs[work]> do you mean the ESP-12E, or the cheaper module?
2021-10-13 18:59:07 <lispmacs[work]> (the ESP-01S is the cheaper module I used to have)
2021-10-13 19:00:34 <lispmacs[work]> f-a: not precisely clear on what your question is
2021-10-13 19:00:50 <lispmacs[work]> *means
2021-10-13 19:01:21 <f-a         > I am sorry, in general. What is transmitted? What is received?
2021-10-13 19:01:39 <f-a         > it feels magical to me that such a tiny device (or any device) can do that
2021-10-13 19:01:51 <lispmacs[work]> f-a: it is rs232 serial communication, with just 1 RX line and 1 TX line.
2021-10-13 19:02:09 <lispmacs[work]> sterm needs to know the baud rate the device is tx/rx at
2021-10-13 19:03:05 <lispmacs[work]> as opposed to something like SPI where there is a clock line
2021-10-13 19:03:17 <f-a         > I see
2021-10-13 19:03:40 <lispmacs[work]> all the microcontrollers I have worked with have at least one UART RX/TX port
2021-10-13 19:04:28 <lispmacs[work]> usually ran by dedicated circuitry in the microcontroller, so you don't have to bit-bang that
2021-10-13 19:05:43 <lispmacs[work]> I'm still an amateur with microcontrollers, really, but I've worked with several AVR chips and also now the ESP8266
2021-10-13 19:06:00 <f-a         > good
2021-10-13 19:06:02 <lispmacs[work]> I wrote some modules for flashforth (AVR)
2021-10-13 19:06:15 <lispmacs[work]> https://codeberg.org/infrared