Quite nice hinge you have made here, Fusion_Power. I would like that in Pyra, although with an additional 90deg locking position. I see only one serious issue with it - the screw will unscrew itself quickly if it's not fastened somehow to the rest (or fits really tight in the nut).
Add as many lock positions as you like, that's the idea.
The screw should not unscrew if tightend enough. And the design is made so that the bolt/axis are "free", they both can rotate 360° because they are not connected to the lock pieces or locked into the case. The entire mechanism is only hold left and right to keep the position and only the lock pieces are slit in the lid/case to rotate with the case itself.
Also, with using any hinge of this size, there is additional problem of wearing the plastic socket where the hinge sits - quickly it becomes loose, like old Dell D600 laptop screen. The sockets on both sides would have to be metal reinforced, or something.
Size is basicly 1:1 to the old Hinge and the plastic can be made thicker there to withstand the force. If the Pandora hinge did not break the case, I doubt this design would. But needs testing of course. Again, some parts of the lock pieces could be also made out of plastic.
That hinge design is a nice concept, but you have to understand it's one thing to have a nice design and another to have it manufactured, thoroughly tested and then mass produced. Do you think that can be done in EvilDragon's timeline for the Pyra project?
I just drop in some ideas, I know there is a big step from idea to final product. But there is nothing, chinese companies can't do within a week.
And it's basicly just a spring, a bolt and a nut, nothing that has to be re-invented. Existing sizes could be used if they fit in, just the case has to be slightly adjusted to hold the hinge. Custom parts would be the lock-bolts of course. But we know a guy with an big CNC machine, right?
I am, like, 99% certain that that's exactly how locking hinges work anyway, the same solution that Nintendo is using now, and exactly what ED would be getting if he paid the money to the hinge company for a "custom" design.
While admirable that you want to help, I don't see what problem you're trying to solve. There's no issue technically getting hinges with multi-positional lock, it's that they cost so much more money because no one sells them off-the-shelf, he'd have to custom order them.
I only did this for fun, for myself (if I have ideas, they must get out in the wild! ) and maybe to inspire some more talented guys to find a better solution for a good Pyra hinge.
Of course this is basicly how hinges may work, why re-invent the wheel.
The only difference is, this one here would be "our" hinge, it's literally "open", can be easily modded and can be disassembled/fixed by every person.
I have just stated some opinions on the feasibility of the idea. I'm in no way hindering his ideas from reaching ED.
I will not bother ED directly, if he want to comment this, than he can do here of course but it's not like I want to force ED to seriously think about this concept, he has enough to do right now.