Calculators made by Texas Instruments usually share that special place in our hearts along with the Atari or NES consoles. They were the everyday gadgets we grew up with, and the TI calculator became more than a homework companion. Before there was MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, or the Interwebs, we were left to waste time on monochrome pixelated games on the TI calculator. And who can forget that infrared port, peer-to-peer file sharing at its beginning? Oh the memories…
Welcome to 2010 where there’s an open source project for everything. Yes, even the graphing calculator.
Matt Stack has created Open SciCal, a gizmo with a 4.3-inch touchscreen and a bit bigger than the iPhone. It runs on BeagleBoard, a single-board, low-power computer with a 1GHz CPU, more than enough to crunch numbers and plot pretty graphs. In fact, it can even run a Web browser (there’s the time-wasting feature we so enjoyed) with the built-in WiFi.
But if you love the programming aspect of a calculator, Open SciCal can dress in Linux and run R, a statistical programming language. Plus Perl and C. How’s that for geeking out?
[via Wired]
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