+1Good news, there's hope to have the best Christmas ever in 2015
The print will be on the silicon in this case and the caps are transparent.I suppose this also means that there's slightly more room on the action buttons for a label, since there's no circle padding anymore. Will the action button keycaps be printed on the underside as well? (that could be harder to do, since they are not flat pieces of plastic like the rest of the keyboard)
Are all 6 action buttons like this, or just the 4 big ones?
Still the eternal optimist I see. Development being quicker than anticipated is a rarity.410 traces are left to be created - so if he continues in the same pace, the CPU board will be finished in about 15 days.
Could be a bit faster as well though (some non-critical traces could be made using the auto-router), but we'll see.
Damn, another weird custom-adapter. I hoped that could be avoided. In my opinion, that's a wart on the design (just like the not-quite USB3 port).I take it that chances of a regular USB to esata adapter functioning properly were ruled out from the beginning.Nikolaus also started to work on the e-SATA adaptor which plugs into our USB port for those who want to connect a SATA device to the Pyra.
The alternative is not having eSATA.They were originally going to have a USB/eSATA hybrid connector but turns out they're actually very hard to source in quantity. It was either the adapter or ditch eSATA because there was no way to get yet another connector on there.Damn, another weird custom-adapter. I hoped that could be avoided.
Absolutely not. You want to use a standard USB to eSATA adapter go right ahead. You'll only get USB2 speeds instead of eSATA speeds but if that's what you want then go for it. This adapter is only to get access to the eSATA port.I take it that chances of a regular USB to esata adapter functioning properly were ruled out from the beginning.
Ah neat. What's the SSD by the way? So it's a kind of reverse v-sync, originating from the display device rather from the sender deviceApart from that, the TE line is simply a signal coming from the SSD. It triggers whenever it awaits a new frame. This can be read out in software and be hacked into the driver so synchronize the video stream it sends.
They will be different, and I fully expect, significantly improved. AIUI the nub part you move is a magnet and the base is a pair of hall-effect sensors, sensing the movement of that magnet. Those signals are then digitised and passed to a kernel module, so it's entirely down to changeable software how the nubs are calibrated etc. - no more unexpected recalibrations, once we get the software working properly.About the NUBs, will be improved this time?
The SSD is the rotator chip. From my understanding the TE line is like a standard vsync: the "display" reports back "ready for more"What's the SSD by the way?
Let me see if I understand you correctly.Would you rather it just be a USB2 port such that when the CPU board eventually gets an upgrade to something with more USB3 support we're forced to USB2 anyway because of original design? Naw man, the "not-quite" USB3 port is a major feature, it's an upgrade path waiting to happen. May as well take advantage of the extra pins while it's there.
It is a totally different type of nub. It should be more robust and not have the issues the Pandora nubs did. This has been discussed a lot elsewhere, especially when news that the nub ED picked would be discontinued (however there are a lot of options to still allow essentially the same thing to be used by making one of the parts, which is why it is/was discontinued...I think they said the sensor and everything is still around, just not the plastic top part where you put your thumb). ED made a thread (or threads) about it, so do a search if you want the details, and other things that were considered.Great news! About the NUBs, will be improved this time? I have heard that the second production for Pandora still had a high failure rate.
Good point. We were told there'd be audio tests done on those possibilities, which I assume still need to be done. CPU board needs to be finished first I'd have thought though.What about the audio chip ?
OP opamp or OMAP ?