[eksith]

If anything this really is the time for the club to reunite (and for some new fresh blood to join in). If you think about it, homebrew has really exploded without the benefit of meets like this; all thanks to the internet (YouTube et al in particular) showing what can be done with a bit of DIY hacking of purpose built and definitely not purpose built devices.

Forget IBM, Dell, HP and such. Those guys are dinosaurs. There are so many new companies now Arduino, SparkFun, RaspberryPi, BeagleBoard(TI, but still worthy) etc... all catering primarily toward the tinkerer. If anything this should receive support from these companies, groups and products as well as individuals since it's their products that are going to form the backbone for a lot of homebrew projects.

How come there still isn't a proper standard (open source) replacement for the TI series graphing calculator? I can't imagine a group more qualified to build one and share among each other.

[cmgreen]

There are plenty of open source replacements for graphing data that involve computers. The calculator is a form-factor challenge and marketing challenge. Calculator markets are driven very early by what is acceptable for a High School Student to use.

Current US influential standards:

http://sat.collegeboard.org/register/calculator-policy http://www.actstudent.org/faq/calculator.html https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-calculus-ab/c...

[rtpg]

I think a big issue with the TI graphing calculator replacement is that hacking community always tries to put in a lot of features and things, whereas the TI calculators are representative of a lot of compromise to run on AA batteries for so long.