Microcontrollers are wonderfully useful things, but programming them can be a little daunting if you’re used to the simplicity of compiling for regular PCs. Over time though, this has become easier.

Calculator apps and handheld calculators are clunky, but Python's interactive mode easily recalls previous results for calculations. You can also scroll through and search input. Python offers basic ...

Scientific calculators were invaluable to most of us through high school and college, freeing us from the yoke of using tables to calculate logarithms and trigonometric functions. Once out in the real ...

It's been more than 20 years since I bought a physical, hold-it-in-your-hand calculator. I've bought a couple of special-purpose calculator apps, but the very last one I bought was the TI-1726, which ...

Adafruit has this week announced the availability and arrival of the NumWorks Graphing Calculator which offers the first moddable calculator with a Python interpreter built in. “This truly modern tool ...