The death of calculator market?

[John Keith]

(10-24-2020 07:10 AM)Giancarlo Wrote:  Hello,
I agree on that.
There is a great opportunity. It is the first time that different platform adopt the same programming language reducing the the slopes initial phase of learning a new language, use code snippets found everywhere.
At this point why not extending this concept to a development board?
Hp shouldn’t be scared of the effort. In my opinion they shouldn’t develop a board by themselves, they should adopt one.
Nowadays there are consolidated boards without risks of choosing one that will disappear soon.
I think that hp should develop a limited amount of commands and then let the user comunity to proceed.

Arduino and raspberry pie need An extra effort that kid may not be able to cope with. Why we don’t rely to our calculator these first steps toward automation and robotics?

Arduino is more difficult for the inexperienced because it is typically programmed in C which is not exactly a user-friendly language. The Raspberry Pi on the other hand supports Python and Scratch, both of which are prominent in the educational world. The Pi is also a full-fledged computer and can be programmed in just about any language in existence.

A good start for HP would simply be to get the Prime emulator and connectivity kit working on the Raspberry Pi. Integration with Pi's hardware features (GPIO, etc.) if possible, could be supported by a custom App.