No matter how high you overclock it, whether its 300 Mhz or 3000 Mhz, it will still only have 60MB of usable memory.

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Unlike previous calculator models from TI, users, by default, are unable to create native homebrew applications for the device.

Luckily, however, the TI community found a way to jailbreak the nSpire CX and CX CAS, allowing third-party developers to create apps for their calculators.

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One of the most notable community contributions, started by tangrs, was a port of Linux to the device, giving users and tinkerers full access to GNU userspace on the device.

This is my attempt to contribute back to the community, by porting Android userspace to the nSpire CX and CX CAS model calculators.

TL;DR You can now run Android on a graphing calculator Why Nowadays.

The latest Android release at the time of writing is Lollipop, a release Google claims can run on smartphones with as little as 512MB of ram.

Certainly a good start, But I was convinced some version of Android could run on extremely low end hardware.

So, after a bit of searching, I found the best Android release to run on the lowest end capable hardware I could think of: my calculator.

That release is the obsolete, but venerable, Android Donut (1.6).

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After a bit of porting work, I managed to get a full android stack up and running on my calc and slowly began to iron out some of the major bugs.

Ive been playing with it for a while now and figured it was finally decent enough to release to the general public.

However, it should be noted that a lot of functionality is still missing, partially due to bugs, and partially due to the age of Android 1.6.

However, I do believe it has exceeded its goal as a POC port to help me learn more about what makes up Android, and as it turns out, is even rather usable.

I can even play some 2D games on it Can you port Android to my calculator Its a (insert calculator using a z80 here) A: Um, wat Will this.

When you launch TiLP, connect your calculator and create a directory called Android.

Copy over nspire-cx.tns, Boot.img.tns, nDroidLoad.tns, and startndroid.ll2.tns.

After that, download ndless.cfg.tns in ndless, open it with a text editor, and add the following line: ext.ll2ndroidloader Step 4: Extract system to USB drive Now that the USB drive has been partitioned, mount the first partition somewhere on your computer and place System.tar.gz in the root directory of said partition.

Open up a terminal in that location and type: sudo tar -xpf System.tar.gz sudo rm System.tar.gz After that, you should have some shiny new files and directories on your USB drive Step 5: Starting it up After the files have synced to the USB drive, remove it and place it in the USB-OTG cable.

When thats done, plug the small end of the cord into the top of the nSpire CX.

Open documents on the device, click on the Android folder, and then click on startndroid.ll2.tns.

NOTE: Until the touchpad is working, the button is up, the x2 button is down, the ex button is left, the 10x button is right, menu is menu, doc is home, esc is back, and save is power.

Video: Unofficial Reddit thread: XDA:DevDB Information nDroid, ROM for all devices (see above for details) Contributors joshumax Source Code: ROM OS Version: 2.3.x Gingerbread ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x Based On: AOSP Version Information Status: Testing Current Beta Version: nDroid-1.6 Created 2015-06-26 Last Updated 2015-12-02.

A killer app for me would be the ability to be able to use it for live navigation (with a standard android app) think hiking, or dash mounted on a motorcycle.

So far I rooted it (several times) and have been able to get individual pieces to work following USB otg, fast refresh, various stand alone functions, but it never works together.

Since it is possible to overclock your ti-nspire cxcas, do you think it would be possible to run higher versions of android on it.