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I don't have time to catch up to 29 pages of discussion but here's my take on it: If you want to make something built-in that could also be attached via USB, only do so for things that are: Appropriate to a portable computer which isn't a phone Such a hassle if done via external USB that...

I didn't notice that. I hope you're wrong and, if not, I hope it's just some stops I can cut out with a utility knife. Nintendo DS-sized devices like the Pandora are simply too small to comfortably hold and look at any other way than open ~180 degrees. The only time I don't have the hinge open...

If the hole were smaller than the outer disc, there would be no way to install it unless the thumb sticks were two-part screw designs... which are fragile and complicated to mold when done in plastic.

Making the keys less square. Unless the Pyra is a lot bigger than I think, the new rectangular shape cuts the surface area of each key down. As for the tactile feedback, I agree. In fact, now that I think about it, it's entirely possible the new key design might improve that. If so, I'm in...

Looking good so far... my only concern is that squashing the buttons like that may make typing harder but I'll withhold my judgment there.   Will the Pyra still be compatible with a supply that's limited to 2A? I was considering getting one of these for an experiment and it'd be nice if I could...

Unfortunately, I have very little time right now any many things more important than this, so we'll have to stop here since Google isn't being helpful within the time I can spare.

Google is being unhelpful for what I originally read but here's a link that references some of its sources for various supporting claims. http://www.theweek.co.uk/books/47297/how-anti-ebook-ray-bradbury-finally-succumbed-digital-age

I fail to see how the phrasing I used implies that he thought it was inevitable.

Interesting factoid: Farenheit 451 wasn't written about censorship in general but, rather, about Ray Bradbury's paranoid fear that electronics will kill the printed book. His books only became available in eBook form a few years ago when his publisher refused to renew without an eBook option...

Good to hear... though I did also amend my post with "or that some quirk of the OMAP's video driver may make switching resolutions like that unfeasible."

Not with laptops, no. Hell, I've got an old Thinkpad 755C (486DX4 75MHz) that can do more on the external VGA than the built-in panel... but laptops and mobile SoCs aren't the same thing. I can't remember specific models, but I know I've run across some where, for example, the SoC should have...

That's why I called it a potential downside. I've seen situations where it was an issue in the past and we don't yet have enough information to rule it out.

I was already somewhat worried about the DPI issue, given the trouble Michael from Phoronix had trying to get Xfce to play nicely with a HiDPI laptop display. On both price and performance, I think the 720p solution is better. The only potential downside I see is HDMI out. While 1280x720 would...

People have reverse-engineered much more difficult things than a head-tracking stream. I'm honestly not too worried about that part.

But, at some point, it still has to rely on the computer to run the game if they don't want it to include its own prohibitively expensive CPU and GPU and there's an excellent history of reverse-engineering drivers for peripherals... especially when they have this much potential.

I wouldn't mind buying a Facebook Rift as long as there are open drivers. That's the big difference between the Rift and the Pyra. If sold to a Facebook-like company, the Pyra could have a locked bootloader or firmware that phones home regardless of what the OS says. On the other hand, the...

If you're going for something too large to fit inside a Pyra anyway, you might as well get a DHT11 and get temperature and humidity with similar accuracy for under $1.50 including shipping. (And it's still small enough that you could probably use perfboard, V-USB, a USB-A connector, an ATTiny45...

That definitely would be nifty. Especially since the captive portal on my WiFi exacerbates the time it takes to spin up an RF connection to control things over the LAN.

Huh. You're right. Must've got my memories scrambled on less.

My point is that it's a lot easier to convey the knowledge that "Ubuntu is a type of Linux, like a Cadillac is a type of car" and get uptake if the credibility of that statement and the importance of correctness isn't being called into doubt by all sorts of argument over the name. That's my...