Finishing up the hardware

[EvilDragon]

The lid part needs one minor change but is finished apart from that.

The two different colors of the printed case are simply because one is polished (the lower part) and the other isn't (wasn't possible with the small keyboard holes).

 

[TrashyMG]

Oh, the audio jack is on the backside? Crap...

No place to put it in the front with Cell modem Antennae and such in the way. The back seems to be the best other place. If it was on the sides having headphones plugged in would get in the way of holding it.

 

[matzesu]

Well, of you play on the couch whit the pyra on your "stomach", than the Audiojack on the backside is way better, and when it sits on your desk and its connectet to your Hifi and your TV, then its also good on the backside..


On the front, a audiojack would cause to many noise because the radio chip

 

[fusion_power]

Oh, the audio jack is on the backside? Crap...

It could be worse, I see no problem with that. Better than sideways, isn't it?

Case is looking good so far, let's hope all is going well with the injection mold tooling, this is serious stuff compared to the current case development. ^^"

 

[Exophase]

No place to put it in the front with Cell modem Antennae and such in the way. The back seems to be the best other place. If it was on the sides having headphones plugged in would get in the way of holding it.

There was a guy on GP32X who used to go on a lot about how much GP2X screwed up putting the headphone port on the back. That paled in comparison to using it with the AC adapter plugged in, jutting out the side of the unit where you hold it. Worst design decision on the system by far.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Oh, the audio jack is on the backside? Crap...

It's fine. I like it on the back.

 

[WizardStan]

Well, of you play on the couch whit the pyra on your "stomach", than the Audiojack on the backside is way better, and when it sits on your desk and its connectet to your Hifi and your TV, then its also good on the backside..

Also at the gym, on the treadmill, you can prop it up in the book holder without it getting in the way.

 

[Neelix]

 Nice!

This is the twitter caption for the above picture btw: "Finished backside of the Pyra, with all ports. The shoulder buttons work REALLY well, btw"

@ED Thanks for the update on the shoulder buttons, I had been wondering about that.

Does the bottom half of this base part have a different (slightly darker) color than the top part of the base? Is it going to stay like that?

Is it just me or is there something really appealing about those colours? I really like the stone texture effect, and wouldn't mind seeing either version as the colour of the finished product. (though I wouldn't have thought of it before I saw the image)

- Neelix

 

[Wrath Of Khan]

Very nice. I think the shoulder buttons should be black on all units irrespective of the case colour, the face buttons too.

And I still really want a Dark red Pyra.

At some point my mind just fixated on the idea, and a bright colour makes it stand out from the generic and multitudinous hand-held's.

 

[Saber]

Is it just me or is there something really appealing about those colours? I really like the stone texture effect, and wouldn't mind seeing either version as the colour of the finished product. (though I wouldn't have thought of it before I saw the image)

I also kind of like the stone grey coloration, at least for a special edition Pyra. 

 

[Ivididiviividi]

Oh, the audio jack is on the backside? Crap...

It's fine. I like it on the back.

It would be more practical to have it on the place of the HDMI port, as well as to move the volume controls as close as it is possible.

Very nice. I think the shoulder buttons should be black on all units irrespective of the case colour, the face buttons too.

And I still really want a Dark red Pyra.

At some point my mind just fixated on the idea, and a bright colour makes it stand out from the generic and multitudinous hand-held's.

A separate set of recessed L/R is what my people want.

I didn't really go deep into the news threads before, but did I miss something about using the USB3 lanes for something but leaving them for future compatibility? (And the second microUSB)

 

[TrashyMG]

I didn't really go deep into the news threads before, but did i miss something about using the USB3 lanes for something but leaving them for future compatibility? (And the second microUSB)

It was first announced here: http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/17852-pictures-for-the-weekend/

Then clarified a tad here in a later post: http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/17852-pictures-for-the-weekend/#entry375767 

 

 

[matzesu]

Well, of you play on the couch whit the pyra on your "stomach", than the Audiojack on the backside is way better, and when it sits on your desk and its connectet to your Hifi and your TV, then its also good on the backside..

Also at the gym, on the treadmill, you can prop it up in the book holder without it getting in the way.

Usaly, i use my Ipod Nano and Bluetooth Headphone on Gym Dreadmill..
Its works way better


75 % of the CPU Board is ready

 

[NoeleyC]

 
Nice!


This is the twitter caption for the above picture btw: "Finished backside of the Pyra, with all ports. The shoulder buttons work REALLY well, btw"

@ED Thanks for the update on the shoulder buttons, I had been wondering about that.

Does the bottom half of this base part have a different (slightly darker) color than the top part of the base? Is it going to stay like that?

Is it just me or is there something really appealing about those colours? I really like the stone texture effect, and wouldn't mind seeing either version as the colour of the finished product. (though I wouldn't have thought of it before I saw the image)


- Neelix

I think a Pyra with that dark grey casing colour on the lower casing there would definitely be very eyecatching, especially with the logo lighting up, hopefully it might an impression of lava coming out from rock or a dragon's egg hatching! I'd never considered that colour for casing before, I'd pretty much assumed it'd probably be a dark red as well

 

[Ivididiviividi]

I didn't really go deep into the news threads before, but did I miss something about using the USB3 lanes for something but leaving them for future compatibility? (And the second microUSB)

It was first announced here: http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/17852-pictures-for-the-weekend/

Then clarified a tad here in a later post: http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/17852-pictures-for-the-weekend/#entry375767 

It might be too late to blame the idea in any way, but I can imagine some USB3 devices being unhappy about this.

(And what about the second microUSB?)

 

[TrashyMG]

(And what about the second microUSB?)

What about it? It will be the charging port and if will act by default as USB to serial tty terminal(feature of the SoC).

 

[Linux-SWAT]

I still hope for 2G RAM...

 

[asimov-solensan]

It is still being discussed? Man I really expected 2GB at minimum, even more in future versions.

What about the nand? I could live with 16GB, but 32GB will be much better since we can make use of the debian repos.

 

[ible]

does the RAM live on the CPU board or the underlying PCB?

 

[TrashyMG]

does the RAM live on the CPU board or the underlying PCB?

It's on the CPU Board, having it on the Pyra Mainboard wouldn't make sense as different SoCs have different Memory needs.