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I just stumbled upon NumWorks and was excited to see some competition for TI's calculator monopoly [1]. It looks like NumWorks is open source (including the ha
by semenko 4y ago
I just stumbled upon NumWorks and was excited to see some competition for TI's calculator monopoly [1].
It looks like NumWorks is open source (including the hardware) [2] and supports Python and Rust! [3]
[1] https://gen.medium.com/big-calculator-how-texas-instruments-monopolized-math-class-67ee165045dc https://gen.medium.com/big-calculator-how-texas-instruments-...
[2] https://www.numworks.com/resources/engineering/ https://www.numworks.com/resources/engineering/
[3] https://github.com/numworks/epsilon-sample-app-rust https://github.com/numworks/epsilon-sample-app-rust
- jpbadan 4y agoUnfortunately It seems it's not open source anymore https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JSxBn_gxWXA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JSxBn_gxWXA
- belthesar 4y agoThat's a gross oversimplification. From the video the poster provided: * V16 of the Epsilon OS by Numworks removed the ability to install custom operating systems to the device in response to pressure from the Dutch education department, who had adopted the calculator as the standard for their education system. This was due to information provided by a different Youtuber accusing the platform of being used for cheating, and then provided modified versions of the OS that enabled cheating support by working around the Exam Mode functions. A fair and true statement would be that the NumWorks calculator was originally marketed as open hardware, and that functionality was removed (similar to Sony removing OtherOS from PS3's).
- josephcsible 4y agoIt's tivoized hardware running closed-but-visible-source software. It's not an oversimplification at all to say it's not open source.