Unboxing #39: Unboxing the TI-36X Pro Scientific Calculator | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video we unbox our TI-36X Pro scientific calculator from Texas Instruments.

The books I mention are TI-36X Pro Scientific Calculator Practice Examples and Calculus on the TI-36X Pro Calculator. These books are low quality (lots of errors and omissions) but they’re still useful.

The manual is here: TI-36X-PRO-Guidebook_EN.pdf.

The QR code on the insert goes here: https://education.ti.com/en/select-country/eguides

There’s more information on the Texas Instruments website: TI-36X Pro scientific calculator.

This is the box:

A scan of the box the calculator came in

And this is the insert:

A scan of the insert that came in the box

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Scientific calculators and graphing calculator

Today I got myself two scientific calculators:

One graphing calculator:

And a few books about how to use them:

If you’re interested in such things you might like to check out Developing a Scientific Calculator Easier for Everyone to Use, the story of the Casio ClassWiz models.

I also considered:

On my iPhone I have:


Casio FX-991CW Advanced Scientific Calculator

Casio FX-991CW Advanced Scientific Calculator

TI 36X Pro Scientific Calculator

TI 36X Pro Scientific Calculator

HP Prime G2 Graphing Calculator

HP Prime G2 Graphing Calculator

FREE Analog Engineer’s Circuit Cookbooks from Texas Instruments

Today over on the EEVblog forum I learned about the two ebooks available from Texas Instruments. One is for amplifier circuits and the other for data-conversion circuits, including both Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuits and Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuits. I had to sign up for an account before I could download…

Texas Instruments Datasheets

I was watching The Differential Pair Becomes an Op-Amp – Transistors 101, episode 18 and they mentioned this datasheet: https://ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm358.pdf. That URL looks very hacker friendly to me, if you know what you’re looking for you can probably guess the URL! I haven’t tried this in anger yet, this is just a note for Future John.

Graphing calculator

I’m keeping my eye out for a graphing calculator. Haven’t got the money to buy one just yet, but am watching eBay to get an idea of the prices. You can see at Officeworks the choices are basically:

  • HP Prime Graphing Calculator
  • Casio Classpad Colour CAS Calculator fx-CP400
  • Casio Colour Graphic Calculator fx-CG50 AU
  • Texas Instruments Inspire Calculator CXII-CAS
  • Texas Instruments Graphing Calculator TI-84 Plus CE

There’s some reviews and demos over here: