How many people have an on a regular basis device that’s really distinctive? Most likely now not many people; have a look round your table and prove your wallet, however extra ceaselessly than now not, what you’ll in finding is that the entirety you have got is one thing that just about everybody else on this planet may have purchased too. However now not so should you’ve were given this pretty customized RPN calculator in a wood case.
This one involves us from [Shinsaku Hiura], who usually dazzles us with distinctive mechanical clocks and shows. This calculator solves a simpler drawback — the shortage of RPN calculators available on the market with the right kind keyboard really feel, in particular with the massive keys and lightweight contact he desired. Accurately, the construct began with a numeric keypad, which as soon as liberated of its USB interface was once reverse-engineered to determine how the matrix was once stressed. Subsequent up, a customized PCB to attach the keypad to an Arduino and a 20×4 LCD show was once milled up, whilst a check case was once designed and published to test fitment. The general case was once milled from a block of forged walnut and fitted with an acrylic window, for a pointy glance with blank traces and satisfying colours.
As for the calculator itself, the demo underneath presentations it going thru its paces. The code is artful as it leverages the minimum selection of keys to be had by way of hiding the entire clinical and engineering purposes in the back of a “secret silver key” that was once as soon as the equals key and clearly now not wanted in RPN. Hats off to [Shinsaku] for a good-looking and distinctive addition to his table.
