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Where are the great programmer's calculators?

Here: Qi Hardware's NanoNote makes a great programmer's calculator (including graphing/plotting with gnuplot), and it also does some other stuff well, too.

I got one early on, when they were only $100 (as did my wife, and a few friends), and it was worth every penny. These days they're selling for $150, and I'd say they're still worth every penny.

Have a look at Qi Hardware's NanoNote. It seems like it it fit the bill pretty well, especially if you pair it with TuxBrain's Universal Breakout Board (a small breakout board that plugs into the NanoNote's MicroSD port).

I've bought two NanoNotes for use as portable music players (one for me, one for my wife). We've been running MPD + ncmpc on them (which makes it convenient to either browse or search for songs), along with smart auto-DJ (which means that you can just pick a song to start with, and it'll automatically keep the play-queue filled with appropriate-sounding songs), for the past two years or so.

Running just on the commodity battery that fits inside, we've found that they'll run for at least 8 hours; but they also support the addition of small external battery that'll get you another ~30 hours.

Have a look at Qi Hardware's NanoNote. It seems like it it fit the bill pretty well, especially if you pair it with TuxBrain's Universal Breakout Board (a small breakout board that plugs into the NanoNote's MicroSD port).

I've bought two NanoNotes for use as portable music players (one for me, one for my wife). We've been running MPD + ncmpc on them (which makes it convenient to either browse or search for songs), along with smart auto-DJ (which means that you can just pick a song to start with, and it'll automatically keep the play-queue filled with appropriate-sounding songs), for the past two years or so.

Running just on the commodity battery that fits inside, we've found that they'll run for at least 8 hours; but they also support the addition of small external battery that'll get you another ~30 hours.

Don't forget the Ben Nanonote - where the whole design from the bits and bytes down to the nuts and bolts are open source.

the NanoNote hand-held platform failed to get the attention of many due to its low specs and the lack of wireless connectivity.

Guess what? It still has low specs, and it still lacks wifi. I'd never heard of the NanoNote, and I'd never heard of 802.15.4. Now they're combined into a single product that no one will be interested in. I guess that's an improvement, right?

Ain't 802.15 WiMax i.e. a superset of WiFi and Mobile connectivity? In other words, let you be online @ broadband like speeds even in a car or train? That's a pretty good thing, by the look of it. And also, it looks like WiFi is supported .

Best part - it has IPv6 right out of the box, and so getting connected ought to be a lot smoother.

Incidentally, which processor is this based on?

yea i see the home page, and some news links, a couple of videos but where do you buy it?????

Right here. They're $99. Wifi will cost you about $30-40 (but isn't copyleft).

(Got that link from the provided link in the article above.)

yea i see the home page, and some news links, a couple of videos but where do you buy it?????

Right here. They're $99. Wifi will cost you about $30-40 (but isn't copyleft).

(Got that link from the provided link in the article above.)

From their wiki: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_in_Nanonote

This section shows the availability of Wi-Fi connectivity in Ben NanoNote.
Up to now, Ben NanoNote is able to use Wi-Fi devices based on the KS7010 Wi-Fi chip from KeyStream.
KeyStream was a small Japanese startup (about 30 people) focusing on mobile Wi-Fi chips, their first and only main product being the KS3021 RF chip and the KS7010 Wi-Fi baseband chip. They were acquired by Renesas in April 2009, and are now continuing as the KeyStream brand inside Renesas. The technology will probably appear in other Renesas chips in the future.
Known users of these chips are:
Microsoft Zune 30, and probably other Zune models as well
Spectec SDW-821 full-size SD (SDIO) Wi-Fi card
Spectec SDW-823 microSD (SDIO) Wi-Fi card
(note that all other Spectec Wi-Fi cards use MTK Wi-Fi chips without Linux drivers!)

Looks like the Spectec SDW-823 goes for about $30-40 on Amazon.com. And the drivers are all GPLed, so...

While the hack they posted above is really neat, if you want it to "just work" then WiFi is available.

Step by step !!,
We’re aware of the current use of non-free synthesis tools. But it dint mean, we're happy with.
So far the flashing process uses now free/open hardware and software, something that was not possible before.
The history don’t end here, there are very smart people working on some replacement for this missing free parts, but is Work In Progress, and requires more people to join and develop around it.

As in contrast the GNU compiler was no developed in a free/libre system from once. All require transition, and support, keep that mind :-)
If you are interested please join our irc channel #milkymist at freenode and tell us how you can help:

http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=milkymist

About the secrecy part i recommend you to read this interesting thread, worth take the time to read it, and scape from misinformation that is very common those days:
http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2010-September/005369.html

-- disclosure: I manufacture Milkymist One -- If it's a dev kit, it's the most stunningly beautiful dev kit I know. Have you seen the pictures? http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Milkymist_One_pictures Technical superiority is very hard to judge, our goal is to make it super easy to use (basically just turn on), and then allow for anybody to dive deeper and deeper into it, all the way to the free hardware acceleration in the fpga. Tutorials needs to be written, videos made, etc. I will take some time. But please accept for the 'dev kit' feedback: From day 1 of this project, we didn't want it to be a dev kit. All we care about is make very easy to use, beautiful, long lasting and fun products.

BTW, this mailing-list post contains all the details about how the MMC (SDIO) controller is used here. An earlier version relied on doing bit-banging with the MMC lines programmed as general-purpose I/Os, but didn't even reach QVGA resolution this way.

BTW, this mailing-list post contains all the details about how the MMC (SDIO) controller is used here. An earlier version relied on doing bit-banging with the MMC lines programmed as general-purpose I/Os, but didn't even reach QVGA resolution this way.

Can the banks and the patent office please get together with the trademark office and put and end to people calling things Qi?

Qi: The Bootloader
Qi: The Open Source Hardware
Qi: The wireless charging standard

Kthxbye

I got a wifi enabled tablet running android for a little more than 85 euros on ebay : http://cgi.ebay.ie/7-Google-Android-notebook-Netbook-Tablet-PC-UMPC-MID_W0QQitemZ120568056079QQcategoryZ177QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286.m7QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26ps%3D6%26clkid%3D8017503619244106713 In other hand , SACK look quite interesting in my book : http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/SAKC I wonder how much it will cost...

While I agree it would be nice to have the whole supply chain similarly open, there is an important standard to be set in how they document and license the value that they add, even when they choose to or have to use proprietary components. Their achievement against that standard looks pretty impressive to me. see for example http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/AVT2_RC1_Reference_Board

iPad Killer

Take the crapPad and Blend it !

Yours In Smolensk,
Kilgore Trout.