Analyzing 4GB RAM

[Djoga'Ro]

What's all that talk about carbon-based rods touching? Now I'm thinking Rock Slyde somehow.

 

[spud42]

Regarding carbon and 2.4 Ghz:
There are quite many topics on the RC forums over the internet:

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?762850-2-4-Ghz-systems-and-carbon-fiber

and this one is especially interesting:

https://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23819

rfom your own link

Meh....

700+ pilots at IRCHA, MOST of them were using 2.4 systems. No problems reported.

You can get all technical about it but the fact is that MANY people are using them with ZERO issues, myself included.

couldnt be bothered to read too far but most of the thread was talking more about the 2.4 GHz band being crowded by WiFi,Microwaves etc...no reall hard scientific studies with evidence......

 

[Pyramancer]

Another option might be to use full carbon for most of the body, but use regular plastic over the antenna section..

If it's true that carbon composites attenuate the signal significantly more than unreinforced case plastics (I'm sceptical that the difference is worth worrying about), this case design proposal would mean we'd have to point the bottom of our Pyras at the WiFi hot-spot. I suppose this would work if we lie on our backs on the floor, but it might look a bit odd when we're using the device in public.

 

[levi]

Thankfully, 2.4GHz and 5GHz signals like to bounce of lots of things. Provided you get get it out of the box without it bouncing on the inside, it'll bounce off external walls, thorough partition walls, and get picked up by your router/ap. You may well get better bandwith with line of sight, but for most purposes it's not necessary.

 

[Lloyd Xmas]

Any chance of a rough eta at this point? I try checking in every 4-6 months..

 

[TrashyMG]

I try checking in every 4-6 months..

Seems like a nice way of keeping your sanity.

 

[Pyramancer]

Any chance of a rough eta at this point?

Not a chance!

No clear definite progress has been made on the 4 GB problem and it seems that those who have the resources to work on it have very little time for it. It might be resolved this afternoon (there are still some things to be checked, or to finish checking, that would really take very little time), or there might be no progress for months.

At some point ED might decide to release a 2-GB-only Pyra, but I don't feel he can really take that decision until it really becomes clear that no progress on the 4 GB problem is likely to be made soon. (And it continues to feel like a solution, possibly a simple one, is right around the corner.) If he does take that decision, of if a resolution to the 4 GB problem is found that doesn't require major modifications to the board design, then realistically it doesn't seem likely that Pyras could be assembled and shipped in less than two months. Three to five months from the date of a decision or breakthrough seems more likely to me.

 

[directive0]

Any word about the cases?

 

[Caine]

Essentially we are still iterating in the design/prototype/bugfix phase. So regarding an ETA, I would say not earlier than Q2 2018. But be prepared for it being later (This is my estimate and in no way an official statement by the team).

Last thing that I have seen about the 4GB issue was:
https://www.pyra-handheld.com/pipermail/kernel/2017-October/002093.html

Latest news on the cases was this tweet by ED:
Not sure if that ever happened.

 

[Dark Pulse]

Not a chance!

No clear definite progress has been made on the 4 GB problem and it seems that those who have the resources to work on it have very little time for it. It might be resolved this afternoon (there are still some things to be checked, or to finish checking, that would really take very little time), or there might be no progress for months.

Because heaven forbid that these people have lives, jobs, and things to do outside of the Pyra, right?

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Because heaven forbid that these people have lives, jobs, and things to do outside of the Pyra, right?

He wasn't criticising them, he was just stating a fact.

 

[rygD]

Another fact: Making the Pyra isn't anyone's main job.

 

[Grench]

Golden Deli tweet post isn't even Pyra related...

 

[AnimatedFreak]

This Golden Deli tweet is

 

[rygD]

Need more Pyra news and tweets.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Yeah hns is like that. He swaps SoC on electronic boards.

 

[Dave18]

Here you go then

From twitter

The case story - too long for twitter, so it's going to be a news post today or tomorrow. Also included: More news about 4GB. Stay tuned!

 

[directive0]

That doesn't sound good!

 

[Djoga'Ro]

That doesn't sound good!

How so?

 

[Caine]

If it was good news then he would probably have tweeted a picture of the cases while saying they were done.