Although the HP Prime is a newcomer to the calculator scene, it has already drawn quite some attention. This probably due to the fact that it's the most powerful handheld calculator to date and that it comes with a touchscreen interface.

Last week critor announced that he and Lionel Debroux succesfully managed to patch the HP Prime firmware. This demonstrated that native code execution might not be far away if the needed time is spend on it

Yesterday Lionel announced yet again some great news, he has been building an open source toolkit for communicating with the HP Prime! Libhpcalcs is built with the same design principles as the libticalcs toolkit that he has been maintaining and improving over the last years. While he has only been developing for three weeks, it should already be stable enough to be beta-tested on both Linux and Windows.

So if you have an HP Prime and are willing to help its development community grow, you should go help beta test this software now!

I want to personally thank Lionel and Critor for their dedication to the HP-Prime platform and their work to open it up

Lionel never ceases to impress me. Great work as always and thank you for all the effort you've put in to all these projects the past decade (or so)