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Ben Heck's DIY Graphing Calculator
« on: July 03, 2015, 09:32:00 pm »
Seeing all the attempts at people making their own calculator, I found this quite relevant. Still watching at the moment, but seems like a pretty neat project. Also, I love their intro. :P


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Re: Ben Heck's DIY Graphing Calculator
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2015, 10:18:22 pm »
I don't have the time to watch the vid right now (trying to program :P ) but it looks great :)
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Re: Ben Heck's DIY Graphing Calculator
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2015, 10:21:21 pm »
Seeing all the attempts at people making their own calculator, I found this quite relevant. Still watching at the moment, but seems like a pretty neat project. Also, I love their intro. :P



Yeah, I love the "regrettable acting" in The Ben Heck Show. I was disappointed though at how lousy the "calculator" application was. It was a super simple command line program that didn't even do any expression parsing, a python prompt would have been better!
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Re: Ben Heck's DIY Graphing Calculator
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2015, 10:29:02 pm »
I was disappointed though at how lousy the "calculator" application was. It was a super simple command line program that didn't even do any expression parsing, a python prompt would have been better!
Do you want me to show you my parser program? :P Ive only done token parsing and its already a mess, 'couse siriusly, parsing aint easy.  ;) So i wouldn't expect expression parsing :P But then again i haven't watched the video yet so we might be on to different pages.
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From my conversation with Ivoah over IRC it seems that a math parser is not as hard to make as a C parser,which i had in mind. Where, however, can i find the documentation for the stuff done in the video? I have searched the element14 website, but cant seem to find anything.
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"its ironic that if someone does make there own graphing calculator, it will most most likely use parts manufactured by Texas Instruments :("-c4ooo over irc
« Last Edit: July 04, 2015, 04:13:33 pm by c4ooo »
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Re: Ben Heck's DIY Graphing Calculator
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2015, 05:28:11 pm »
Yea, unfortunatley, the calculator didn't do much. Given the time constraints and all they had to do I'd say they didn't do to badly though.

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Re: Ben Heck's DIY Graphing Calculator
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2015, 06:44:25 pm »
element14....that are the guys who made the wolfson audio card for the pi!

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Re: Ben Heck's DIY Graphing Calculator
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2015, 08:20:24 pm »
Are qwerty keyboards really that important? (Given that you can easily attach a keyboard via usb)
I was just thinking, should a diy calc future a qwerty key layout? I mean, if you keep the vertical design, like most calculators do, there is no way you can fit a qwerty keyboard on there. And if you flip the calc on its side, like the voyager, then becomes very awkward and un-calculatorish, (https://education.ti.com/en/us/~/media/Education/images/rightcolumn/products/graphing/Voyage200_L.jpg?mw=280).
So, is a qwerty keyboard really worth that awkward, vertical design? (Most people want qwerty, seemingly at no matter what cost) Remember that for a diy calc, a usb for a keyboard is more then likely.
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Re: Ben Heck's DIY Graphing Calculator
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2015, 08:25:16 pm »
I think the success of the TI-83 Series shows that QWERTY isn't necessary. I think they just wanted to multipurpose their device, but it made it a bit awkward imho.