08-25-2015, 06:26 PM
(08-25-2015 02:06 AM)John Smitherman Wrote: [ -> ]The 43s should follow Thomas Okken's lead with Free 42 - run the software on hardware that others provide.
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(08-25-2015 02:06 AM)John Smitherman Wrote: [ -> ]The 43s should follow Thomas Okken's lead with Free 42 - run the software on hardware that others provide.
(08-25-2015 02:06 AM)John Smitherman Wrote: [ -> ]The 43s should follow Thomas Okken's lead with Free 42 - run the software on hardware that others provide.
(08-25-2015 02:06 AM)John Smitherman Wrote: [ -> ]The 43s should follow Thomas Okken's lead with Free 42 - run the software on hardware that others provide.
(08-25-2015 07:58 PM)rprosperi Wrote: [ -> ](08-25-2015 02:06 AM)John Smitherman Wrote: [ -> ]The 43s should follow Thomas Okken's lead with Free 42 - run the software on hardware that others provide.
This is OK in addition to hardware intended for the original 43S concept, but certainly not instead of.
Many of us will hang in there...
Quote:Well, I've been waiting since Nov 2005. I'll believe in it, if and when I ever see an emulator for it. Forget waiting for the hardware. Just give me an emulator for it and I'll be happy.
Meanwhile, I'll use what I actually have and not worry about what might be someday.
Quote:I have been following this project as well as others for some time.
It seems to me that the main reason most of these projects never materialize is that they are hung up on how to produce the proper platform - this being a piece of hardware with keys and screens.
I always wonder why the other approach was not taken. Start with an existing platform (namely the cell phone), create an emulator of the desired product, debug it on the emulator and move it to a "proper" hardware platform when it becomes feasible to do so in the future. It would have the benefit of having created something now as opposed to only dreaming about it.
I realize that this is an outrageous idea for many people.
But many hardware/software projects in the past have been bootstrapped in this way. I have read where some of the minicomputers were developed/debugged with software emulators long before there was any hardware for the software. That way the software was ready to implement when the hardware did become available.
In my view, a working cell phone version that I can use today will always beat out a vaporware, pie in the sky version that I might be able to use in xxx years, if ever.
Just one man's opinion.
Quote:For goodness sake, just pick a keyboard layout and move on with the design.
And one other item - when will there be an emulator so that we can start playing around with the actual code that will execute whenever a key is pressed on this "perfect" and "optimum" keyboard? To me executable code is the most important part. An "optimum" keyboard without any code is pretty useless.
(08-26-2015 06:48 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote: [ -> ]So the question is: Does the calculator software ONLY get written after the hardware is settled, or has the software already been written and is waiting on the hardware?
(08-26-2015 06:48 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote: [ -> ]So the question is: Does the calculator software ONLY get written after the hardware is settled, or has the software already been written and is waiting on the hardware?
(08-26-2015 06:48 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote: [ -> ]Well, it's been a long long long time of "Hanging in there"...
(08-27-2015 12:01 AM)rprosperi Wrote: [ -> ]So, given I have no real choice anyhow, I will wait patiently and hope that the Glacial Pace of Scaled Reptiles will indeed be revealed in Nashville.
(08-27-2015 11:22 AM)Thomas Radtke Wrote: [ -> ]Claudios newRPL seems to be in need for new hardware.
(09-02-2015 09:42 PM)Claudio L. Wrote: [ -> ][...] I think the only people who care about the newRPL project already have 50g's anyway [...]Not true. Thus far I've been a silent lurker but follow your advances and hope, RPL survives this way. I have no 50g but a 48G.
(09-02-2015 09:42 PM)Claudio L. Wrote: [ -> ](08-27-2015 11:22 AM)Thomas Radtke Wrote: [ -> ]Claudios newRPL seems to be in need for new hardware.
Not really. It's working great on the 50g hardware, the only reason I'm not releasing another demo to the public is because I still can't turn the thing OFF reliably (actually, it turns OFF just fine, it's turning it back ON what's not working and I'm still trying to figure out why).
Even if they discontinue the 50g hardware at the end of the year, it will be on the shelves for a few more months, and I think the only people who care about the newRPL project already have 50g's anyway, and they will last for quite a while.
(09-18-2015 09:07 AM)jebem Wrote: [ -> ]I apologize in advance to the forum members for bumping this up once again.Indeed, when it comes to physical desires, a decent keypad is a major selling point.The other big points being display, and batteries [type and lifespan].
But swissmicros have done it.
Real case and real keys.
I believe the so called "43S" project's owners could manage to do the same if they wanted to...
(09-18-2015 11:24 AM)sa-penguin Wrote: [ -> ]How easy is it to re-program a swiss micro with an experimental build of (for example) 43s? Or even 41 ? You have piqued my interest in these models...
(08-26-2015 06:48 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote: [ -> ]Well, it's been a long long long time of "Hanging in there". The 43S was mentioned back in a 2005 post and the feature set and keyboard layout has been hashed to death.
Quote:The ARM microcontroller chosen for the DIY4 had 128KB of flash and 32KB of RAM, which still wasn't as much as we needed for a 41CX fully configurable with user-selectable modules in all ports.
(10-01-2015 02:49 PM)Kinma Wrote: [ -> ]Question; how much flash and ram do you need for the 41CX
Quote: and how much do you need for the free42 running on the Gecko microcontroller?