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TI-Nspire Hack Enables User Programming 88

An anonymous reader writes "Texas Instruments' most recent, ARM-based series of graphing calculators, the TI-Nspire line, has long resisted users' efforts to run their own software. (Unlike other TI calculator models, which can be programmed either in BASIC, C, or assembly language, the Nspire only supports an extremely limited form of BASIC.) A bug in the Nspire's OS was recently discovered, however, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary machine code. Now the first version of a tool called Ndless has been released, enabling users, for the first time, to write and run their own C and assembly programs on the device. This opens up exciting new possibilities for these devices, which are extremely powerful compared to TI's other calculator offerings, but (thanks to the built-in software's limitations) have hitherto been largely ignored by the calculator programming community."

Comment Re:The concept (Score 1) 1787

Actually I can think of a pretty large market, one I happen to be part of, that IT would be very useful for: college students. Here at the University of Michigan, people have a variety of things: feet, bicyles, scooters, etc. that they use to get to class.

For close classes, walking works fine. However, many classes are sufficiently far that walking would take too long, so people either take the bus, or ride a bike. Waiting for the bus is an inconvenience, and I can attest to the fact that bikes and sidewalks don't always mix. Getting hit by a bicyler is *not fun*.

IT could be a great middle ground to get to class (or the store, etc.). Of course, the fact that it's a $3000 piece of equipment means it's not a good thing to be leaving around a college campus. But sometime in the far distant future when these things are priced so that a college student could actually afford one, it could be a huge hit.

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