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  1. EvilDragon

    New copper cases are finally being assembled

    I'm sorry for my long absence from the boards. July, August and September have been the usual busy months. For those who don't know: In July I start preparing for Gamescom and create the new catalog for the shop - which keeps me pretty busy until Gamescom is over end of August. In September, the...
  2. EvilDragon

    Finally, a bit more news!

    Once again, I'm really sorry for the long time without any update. Before posting some news, I'd like to let you know the reasons why things are moving very slowly. As you very well know, things haven't worked out as good as I had hoped they would. You all followed me when we had the problems...
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    Looking for help: U-Boot RAM Timings

    Okay, this is one of the most critical issues I'm having to deal with at the moment: The RAM Timing / Calibration / Setup in Pyra's U-Boot. What's the problem? Multiple CPU boards have the issue that they don't boot at all, only sometimes or most of the times. The problem is that with these...
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    Not a volcano... but...

    Unfortunately, I've got a pretty sad newspost today - which will also explain my lack of updates, posts and assembled Pyras. Let's start with a quote from good old Lemmings: "What the bloody 'ell 'appened"? Well, we were all good. Assembly had restarted (still slow, but we are still using the...
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    Improvement / Optimizations on the heating / power consumption

    Okay, I'm not sure if I should post this here on the boards or in the kernel mailing list... but if no one really has any ideas here, I'll try the mailing list :) This post is probably one for experienced devs and Linux users. What's it all about? Well, we all know that the Pyra eats quite a...
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    New cases on the way to us

    Just some quick news inbetween: 1000 of the new case sets have been produced and are on the way to us. Then they're going to be painted and afterwards we'll hopefully have a much easier time assembling and shipping units. In the meantime, we're still shipping albeit slowly as we're still using...
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    Assembly restart. Software work. And maybe our next SoC?

    I've recorded a video with all the news. Feel free to ask any questions here :)
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    A short-trip to Greece

    Well, I've been in Greece for the whooping time of 20 hours - but we managed to find solutions for the remaining annoyances I had when assembling the units. Here are all the issues I encountered while I was assembling the first 200 units: a) It was hard to close the top lid. We needed to be...
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    Samples received, visit to Greece to restart the production planned

    I have received the samples around 2 weeks ago (including the new battery cover sample). The good news: Everything is working now out of the box. So once we produce these cases, the issues with manually having to fix the case should be resolved - meaning: A lot faster assembly process! The new...
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    First look at the new battery cover and a general update

    Phewww - moving everything into the new rooms definitely was quite a bit of work. We had to move back and forth 15 times with the transporter to move everything into the new rooms... and then unpack, sort, and so on. We're mostly finished. The shop is operating normal again, the repair / rework...
  11. EvilDragon

    Christmas Update - what happened 2021 and what will happen 2022

    Aaaand here is the long overdue update regarding the Pyra! All packed in a 17-minute video podcast. Let me know if you have and further questions. I'm wishing everyone a very merry christmas - stay healthy, and thanks for everything :)
  12. EvilDragon

    Finally found some time to play with the Pyra myself :)

    Believe it or not: II did not find the time until last night to play some games and emulators with the Pyra. I was so busy setting up stuff, testing, etc, that I didn't find the time before. Well, what can I tell you? Here's my point from a users view so far :) * OS needs a bit more work. I...
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    Mailing list has changed

    As Debian Bullseye removed Mailman 2 and moved on to Mailman 3, the mailing list stopped working in August. It wasn't trivial to set it up - as my server uses virtual hosts, etc. and the instructions weren't THAT good.... However, it's now back in a working state. If you want to subscribe /...
  14. EvilDragon

    Everything sorted into the shelves

    I'll keep this post short, as it's 5:52am here and I want to go to bed :D I finally sorted everything from multiple boxes into the proper shelves! The case parts and PCBs are all neatly organized and sorted in the grey boxes, the small parts are either still inside bags or already in smaller...
  15. EvilDragon

    Just a quick status report video

    What a month! As usual, August has been the most busy month for me - which is also the reason I'm rarely seen at the boards as well. What's so special in August? Well, there's school vacation here (for 6 weeks) and as my trusted employee who handles all the shipping is a single mother, she's...
  16. EvilDragon

    Besucht uns auf der gamescom!

    Wie? Uns besuchen? Wie das? Ist die gamescom dieses Jahr nicht nur digital? Nun, ja. Und wir sind wieder dabei! Wir sind heute (26.08.2021) um 18 Uhr live im Retro-Stream zu sehen. Wir sprechen über neue Spiele und Hardware für klassische Konsolen und einige Shop-News im Allgemeinen (aber...
  17. EvilDragon

    New rooms, updated cases

    142m² assembly space Just some tiny news inbetween, but some very important ones :D Finally, I have found new rooms to rent which will be used to assemble the Pyra (and other products like Retrodes, ColUSB, MegaDrive and SNES games, etc.). It wasn't easy finding one that is big and not too...
  18. EvilDragon

    What we learned and did during the last 6 months

    Quite a few members have asked for a newspost with up-to-date information about the assembly, speed improvements as well as estimations how things will continue. This will probably be a longer post, so grab some tea or coffee and enjoy the read. Why has assembly been so slow until now? There...
  19. EvilDragon

    Improve Volume Wheel Daemon (Bounty!)

    This is a small bounty - but it also shouldn't be too much work. Basically, I'd like to improve the volume wheel daemon aTc wrote so that it uses less power and gives some more improvements. At the moment, it regularly polls the status of the volume wheel and changes the ALSA hardware volume...
  20. EvilDragon

    Audio Driver (with bounty!)

    The Pyra has some not-so-easy things that need fixing - and I'd like to offer bounties for those! The audio driver is part of that. What's the issue with audio on the Pyra? At the moment, we're using a very basic audio driver, which causes quite a few problems. * I provides ONE audio device...
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