Manual to persuade his old calculator to do anything useful, and perceivingĬalculators in general to be user-hostile, unintuitive, and stuck inĪ rut, he decided to make a calculator that was easier to use and,Ĭrucially, easier to improve. Recalling how he'd had to spend hours poring over a He was looking to start his nextĬompany when he wandered into a supermarket and saw his oldĬollege calculator on the shelf - unimproved in over a decade and more Romain Goyet, the CEO, comesįrom a software engineering background.
NumWorks was founded about two years ago. Is interesting to see to what extent it fulfills its promise. User-hostile position most calculator manufacturers have taken, and it Although it isįar from fully free at this point, it is a major step forward from the Recently, NumWorks, a new scientific graphingĬalculator with an open-design ethos was released.
Still find a calculator a useful thing to have at hand. Many people now use their smartphones when they need to do sums, but In this case, the device is the humble scientific calculator. Its way into a class of devices that were not previously so blessed. So it's always of interest when freedom (or That open devices running free software (whether IoT devices or not) are It is an act of faith for some, myself included, Proprietary devices running hard-to-maintain proprietary code is a bit This article was contributed by Tom YatesĮver more populous, there is no shortage of people warning us that theĬontinual infusion into our lives of hard-to-patch