Monday, March 19, 2018

New product post: Sinclair Scientific Calculator Emulator

And we have a new product, a simulator of the Sinclair Scientific Calculator. 
It uses an Arduino port of Ken Shirriff emulator (http://righto.com/sinclair)


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06/01/2019 edit:

This project evolved into its final v6 board:



And a bubble LED v7 board:


This design was also remixed by the people at Pacific Light and Hologram. It is stunning.





And it looks like the last 10 out of a one-time only run of 50 are for sale. Get them here

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This product can be purchased here:
https://www.tindie.com/products/ArduinoEnigma/sinclair-scientific-calculator-emulator/

Here is the hackaday.io page for this project.
https://hackaday.io/project/91895-sinclair-scientific-calculator-emulator

More details about the original calculator:
https://hackaday.com/2013/08/30/ken-shirriff-completely-reverse-engineers-the-1974-sinclair-scientific-calculator/
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/01/a-teardown-with-a-twist-1975-sinclair-scientific-calculator/