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vanderZwan on July 31, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: TI-83 Plus One More

I'm honestly surprised that groups like Pine64 haven't tried making an open source competitor.

edit: just saw a few comments down that NumWorks is basically that?

edit2: based on Phi and Omega[1][2] it looks like they no longer truly are (probably to comply with the regulation nonsense), but they still can be jailbroken.

[0] https://www.numworks.com/

[1] https://phi.getomega.dev/

[2] https://getomega.dev/

criddell on July 31, 2022 [–]

The barrier to replacing TI isn’t hardware. Casio has cheaper calculators and test makers generally have a pretty big selection of acceptable calulators[1]. The barrier is often teachers. They don’t want to change from what they know already.

1: https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/what-to-bring-do/calcu...

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