Run Forth on a PIC Microcontroller / FlashForth / Scamp2

This video will introduce the Scamp2 microcontroller board running FlashForth on a PIC microcontroller. Simple interactive examples will be shown to demonstrate the capabilities of this board and the programming language.

Getting Started / Documentation

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Intro to Scamp Forth:

[marswatcher]

Great video!! I have a Scamp2 as well, and it's a lot of fun to use. I've port Forth to other microcontroller boards and it can be a lot of work, and then you have to work out how to do I/O. This comes with forth preinstalled (easy!) AND I/O support built in. It's far more usable than an arduino for small projects.

[gregt]

I can remember talk of Forth on a chip from 25+ years ago, but it it never seemed to come about. I am glad to see a commercial product that is turnkey out of the box.

[lasersbee]

2:43... Is the GND from the USB_Micro connector connected to common circuit GND or is it floating as shown ? As is I can't see the USB_Micro connector supplying any voltage to the circuit. BTW... Thanks for sharing Scamp2 features.

[marswatcher]

If anyone is interested, I came across a presentation on the Scamp2 given to the Silicon Valley Forth User Group. Just search Youtube for "Scamp Silicon Valley Forth User Group" and you'll find it.

[ShellacScrubber]

A very interesting video and nice to see a board shipping with FlashForth loaded !
Unfortunately though, it's way too expensive for me.
However, the PIC microcontroller the board features costs £4.00($ 6.50 US) here in the UK and the udamonic provide a schematic and documentation giving details of the standard FlashForth dictionary together with their own forth words they have added to use with the scamp2.So making my own breakout board would cost a lot less !

[PerScientiaAdAstra]

... it's very easy to install flashforth on the Atmel 328p platform. Try that. It's economic and easy. Flashing it to microchip devices takes a little more patience, but it's instructive and useful. Great video as your usual standard. Cheers

[lukeearthcrawler]

Looks like a neat toy/tinkering board but $50 is a bit much for it. I prefer my STM32L432KC Nucleo board from ST for $10. It runs circles around this board. That being said, the Scamp could be useful for a high school kid... if they can make it cheaper.