Calculator hacks have been around for a while now and we have seen the most action around the Texas Instruments TI-83 as well as TI-84. When [johnkimdinh] found a method to add an ESP8266 to a scientific calculator (machine translation) as well as this time around it’s a Kenko FX-82M calculator which appears eerily similar to the Casio FX-82M.
In his video, [johnkimdinh] demonstrates his hack which has a web interface for transmitting numbers to the calculator. This is accomplished by accessing the keypad utilizing the ESP8266 GPIOs as well as it is essentially the equivalent of typing remotely. The rest of the circuit remains intact so bit much more work and the other functions ought to be offered remotely as well.
Perhaps this hack is finest fit as a devoted screen for outputting measurements as well as other data which requires some type of post-processing to be human readable. If the next iteration delivers the capability to checked out from the screen we’ll truly be getting somewhere. We visualize such calculators being utilized as the future of education where the connectivity is utilized to retrieve an range of genuine time parameters for assignments. add a few sensors into the mix as well as it might be the next huge thing for STEM.
In the past, we have had calculators given life to do vector as well as matrix math and ESP8266s connected to TI-84 calculators. After all, everyone has calculators, they just should be hacked!