Who needs Texas Instruments?Not Matt Stack , Maker of the Open SciCal . His homemade , 100 % candid source graph calculator not only bollocks away the functionality of store - bought gadget , but is the “ ultimate condition symbol among the nerdiest of the swot . ”
When I was in gamey school , stolen TI-83s were a permeative trade , the threat of the routine - crunching and SAT - prepping . I can only imagine what sort of felonious enterprise would have sprung up had kids been walk around with Stack ’s fully customizable marvel - calc , boasting a touchscreen , 1 - gigacycle per second ARM Cortex A8 processor , 8 GB of SD storage , and Wi - Fi .
So just what on the dot can you count with that walloping ARM processor ? Pretty much anything you desire . Stack demonstrated the tractableness of the Open SciCal by inputting data on sunspots to get a statistical prediction on the next solar flak , and crunched fiscal trends with with stock quotes from Yahoo . pull off your own quantitative labor should n’t be tough , as the calculator runs Linux and R , and can program in Perl and C.
To be fair , the Open SciCal does cost about $ 200 to assemble — far more than any canonical graphing calculator . But for the price , Stack maintain his reckoner put up double the functionality of anything you may buy off the ledge , plus the power to qualify as much as one pleases .
For more information on the task , jump over to Stack ’s page at Antipasto Hardware.[Antipasto Hardware BlogviaWired ]
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