FORTH has been used to control deep space telescopes and planetariums --it's a great way to expose instrumentation for high-level access, but that access might not be human anymore, it could just as easily expose instrumentation to AI agents.
For example, a FORTH page could contain a prompt "Animate a galloping black and white zebra on the attached 64x32 RGB LED matrix, cache the code to do this on a FORTH page called ZEBRASHOW6432." Another could prompt "Run ZEBRASHOW6432 at the top of the hour during weekdays in the Pacific Time Zone." This might involve lifting C drivers from Arduino and CircuitPython for the 64x32 RGB LED matrix driver into FORTH (trivial) and building an MCP-to-FORTH server, but endless fun...
So I guess it's best to stop reading about FORTH and grab an rP0-2W and attach desired indicators, sensors, actuators and transceivers to see for yourself.
FORTH has been used to control deep space telescopes and planetariums --it's a great way to expose instrumentation for high-level access, but that access might not be human anymore, it could just as easily expose instrumentation to AI agents.
For example, a FORTH page could contain a prompt "Animate a galloping black and white zebra on the attached 64x32 RGB LED matrix, cache the code to do this on a FORTH page called ZEBRASHOW6432." Another could prompt "Run ZEBRASHOW6432 at the top of the hour during weekdays in the Pacific Time Zone." This might involve lifting C drivers from Arduino and CircuitPython for the 64x32 RGB LED matrix driver into FORTH (trivial) and building an MCP-to-FORTH server, but endless fun...
So I guess it's best to stop reading about FORTH and grab an rP0-2W and attach desired indicators, sensors, actuators and transceivers to see for yourself.