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Does anyone know where I'd go to ask questions about MicroPython on the Casio fx-CG50 calculator?

TIA

Tom L

Worth trying here!

If nothing else, I'm curious to learn more about what it's like! (Fond memories of writing BASIC on my TI-86, must be pretty neat to be able to use MicroPython)

This is also an interesting device: https://www.numworks.com/
Although, for pocket calculators I stick to HP and RPN

Roberthh wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 08, 2019 6:21 am

This is also an interesting device: https://www.numworks.com/
Although, for pocket calculators I stick to HP and RPN

That does look interesting, the price is reasonable too. I only use RPN after owning a HP41C many years ago. Today I use an Android app.

There is a wonderful Android (and Linux, Windows, even Mac) app called free42, which emulates the HP42 with it's 32 digit precision, and there is the HP42 re-build called DM42 from swiss micros. I had an HP42 once, but the keypad broke.

Just to make it even more OT:

There is droid48 on Android to completely emulate an HP48G....

I can see the fun factor of running micropython on a calculator, but can't see a real use of programming on the calculator.
It might have it's case when you have to repeatedly rerun the same calculus, over and over again, but then, this might have been the case in the 1990 but nowadays where a laptop is not far away... is it really that useful anymore?

I can see the fun factor of running micropython on a calculator, but can't see a real use of programming on the calculator.

That's true. And if you are up for a small device, a smart phone with Python is more capable.
But still I'm using my small calculators. Single purpose, always ready to use. Especially my old HP16C is very useful.

+1 for HP and RPN. HP35s here. I started out with a (hugely expensive) HP35 c1973 and I seem to have come full circle

Although mostly if I'm on my PC I fire up MicroPython...

How interesting that so many MicroPython-people are also HP and RPN fans
Decades of HP48GX user here, which unfortunately, does not work anymore. I got an HP49G recently from a colleague....
However, I don't use it nearly as frequently as before, as my smartphone runs an HP48GX emulator and the PC is running anyhow (in my case) ipython, is never far away.

Hmmm... to get again more into micropython, maybe we could write a RPN calculator in micropython.... as a module it could be used as a terminal service or in other programs and run on anything, even as small as a uC. and you are ready to go....
thus, in urgent needs, you could do your math on your power-socket-relay box

Roberthh wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 08, 2019 10:05 am

and there is the HP42 re-build called DM42 from swiss micros.

Runs on a STM32L4.... just sayin'