Project Ideas¶
While we have limited RAM and CPU resources, there's a surprising account you can do with 128 MB of RAM. Terminal based productivity apps have been around since the dawn of computing. For anything you decide to work on, you could choose to port something that exists, customizing and creating a package, or you could create an entirely new application to take full advantage of the Picocalc's unique capabilities!
Basic Productivity Project Ideas¶
| Name | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Spreadsheets | An app to organize data into endless rows and columns, with formulas for convenience. | Microsoft Excel, LibreOffice Calc |
| RSS Reader | Collect and read RSS feeds from multiple sources in one easy-to-use interface. | Newsboat, Canto |
| Email Grabber | Retrieve emails from Outlook, Gmail, etc., and bring them to the CLI! | Snarf, Sky Email Extractor, Alpine |
Other Useful tools/projects (games, web browsers, etc)¶
| Name | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Game Boy Emulator | What did you expect? It’s for playing games, obviously! | mGBA, SameBoy |
| Text Messaging | Send and receive text messages. | Irssi, Profanity, libpurple |
| Docupedia | A place where you can find documentation for almost anything. | Wikipedia, Grokipedia |
| Web Browser | A text-based web browser designed for efficient everyday web browsing. | w3m, Lynx |
If you have any additional project ideas, feel free to start working on them to make Calculinux better, and post your ideas on the Calculinux mega-thread (on the ClockworkPi forums) or join us in the Discord!