HP Releases Hackable ARM-Based Calculator

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 16, 2008 @04:22AM from the turning-tools-to-toys dept.

mikeselectricstuff writes "HP's 20b business consultant calculator isn't the sort of thing that would normally interest the average Slashdotter, but HP has released a Devkit for it, including schematics and source for a sample application, and they appear to be actively encouraging people to re-purpose it. Maybe the engineers thought a business calculator was just too boring for their hardware? The calculator is based on an Atmel ARM chip, and it has a bootloader and JTAG interface to allow user applications to be written and downloaded, turning a boring calculator into anything you can do within the constraints of the hardware."

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Sorry but I have to ask.. by 4D6963 · 2008-08-16 04:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Does it run NetBSD?

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Re:I'm sorry, but I have to... by 4D6963 · 2008-08-16 04:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In Soviet Russia, calculators re-purpose you!

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