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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #45 on: September 21, 2012, 06:34:16 pm »
It's the yellow thing that plugs into the top.

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Isn't there a other color? It looks ugly IMO :P

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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #46 on: September 21, 2012, 11:28:17 pm »
Hey Jim. Awesome work. I'm already looking forward to buying a navigator. I had a question/idea. Is it possible to view web pages on the Nspire with any computer so long as that computer has the web browser you created? Also with the ability to access a website, would it be possible for someone to send a text message/email via phone to a simplified website and another person reply to it via Nspire? If it's even slightly possible, it could open numerous doors.

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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #47 on: September 22, 2012, 02:19:09 am »
What about porting Lynx or another text-based browser? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #48 on: September 22, 2012, 08:54:07 am »
I've looked at different possibilities, and I would like to port one, but I don't have much spare time. But I'm definitely thinking about it.

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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #49 on: September 22, 2012, 09:18:11 am »
Indeed. The Nspire is ludicrously overpriced for its hardware capabilities:
* the Raspberry Pi and friends are easily 5 times more powerful but 4 to 6 times cheaper than the Nspire;
* each of the four cores of an ORDROID-X (dev board using the same processor as the Samsung Galaxy S III) is more than 10 times more powerful than the Nspire, while the ORDROID-X is not necessarily more expensive than a Nspire (it doesn't have a built-in keyboard or screen, but unlike the Nspire, it supports standard keyboards and screens, and many other peripherals, out of the box).
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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #50 on: September 23, 2012, 08:12:43 pm »
Hold on a sec. So your saying that with enough work, time, and patience, you could effectively give a Nspire WiFi/Web Browsing capabilities without a computer? That's awesome! Also, thanks for the heads up. How hard would it be to run your program on the linux board, how much would it cost, and where could I get one? Lastly, is it possible or likely that your program will be able to work with just a standard Ethernet cable and an adapter to connect it to the Nspire?

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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #51 on: September 24, 2012, 01:07:12 am »
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How hard would it be to run your program on the linux board
Easy :)
Installing Lua and the build dependencies for libti* is trivial.

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how much would it cost,
A Raspberry Pi costs 25 or 35 $ / €, depending on the model; an ORDROID-X costs 120$ (160$ if you add a large eMMC).
Hence the figures in my previous post.

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and where could I get one?
From various resellers on the Internet :)
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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #52 on: September 24, 2012, 03:21:01 am »
Is it out of the question that one day it could be possible to use a normal, run-of-the-mill wifi dongle?
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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #53 on: September 24, 2012, 10:17:32 am »
It would be possible if someone spends a lot of time on the subject, something that many people in the Nspire community are missing.

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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #54 on: September 24, 2012, 01:29:28 pm »
I would be willing to do that, but unfortunately I have the skills nor the time to do it :( It would be awesome though.

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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #55 on: September 26, 2012, 10:14:05 pm »
Would the browser work with saved websites? Like if I were to create a fully browsable offline copy of a website, would I be able to use your program to view the web pages? Also if I were to click a link, would it go to that page, provided I had the data to load it? I think instead of going to a certain address to get information, it would have go to a certain folder on calc.

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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #56 on: September 26, 2012, 10:16:23 pm »
Theoredically i think yep, as iirc the program only reads out the html

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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #57 on: September 26, 2012, 10:17:53 pm »
Awesome! What would it take though? And would it be difficult or time consuming?

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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #58 on: September 26, 2012, 10:19:28 pm »
it should actually be less time consuming as your pc doesn't have to access the internet XD
but i don't think the software (pc side and nspire side) is made for that (nspire side for telling the pc to grab a offline file)

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Re: Look what my Nspire can do
« Reply #59 on: September 26, 2012, 10:20:48 pm »
But can the file be located on the nspire?