Gamescom, sensor upgrade and other nice news

[EvilDragon]

Just a quick addition:
We have 6 working prototypes here, but I only created one bootable SD Card so far, that's why only the grey one was running

3 of the 6 haven't got the SSD in there, so we need the TILER setup to be fully working.

And yes, I'll post pictures and videos as well

 

[ptitSeb]

Look, Pyra doing a French flag ;-)

 

[directive0]

If the colours for the Pyra conformed to lame 90's naming conventions what would they be?

Bionic Blue? Pyra Crystal? Igneous Red?

 

[iprice]

If the colours for the Pyra conformed to lame 90's naming conventions what would they be?

Bionic Blue? Pyra Crystal? Igneous Red?

Hot Neon Pink...

 

[EricB]

I have my eye on this one for the Pyra.

I don't understand German but i think they can't ship to Canada.
Found the Canadian version though


And not very expensive either. I'm getting one for sure

 

[Jumpman]

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Look, Pyra doing a French flag ;-)

Actually, all three of those colors ain't half bad.

I think if the issue of light bleeding through can be fixed or addressed in some way, I think the clear would be my first choice, then that Pyra red would be second, and of course blue would be last, but any of these three are better than black IMO.

Chris

 

[TrashyMG]

Actually, all three of those colors ain't half bad.

yeah both the blue and the red are fairly good looking, my only wish is the shoulder buttons and the nub sticks would be black in colo(u)r to add good contrast.

 

[Caine]

I really hope a decent and affordable paint will be found. To me all those units look like cheap brittle toys.

 

[sulu]

On the flag photo the blue one looks almost darker than the red one. I remembered it the other way around. So which way is it?

asked differently:
If you put both of them in the blazing sun for one hour, which one would you expect to heat up more?

 

[Grench]

I would honestly take a FrankenPyra where every piece down to shoulders, nubs and stylus are all different colors.

Those all look great!

 

[Klumpen]

Wasn't there supposed to be a black (or near black) one too?

 

[ptitSeb]

Ed has the dark grey one with him.
Here are some Pyra back.

 

[Stainy]

I like the grey buttons against the red.

 

[levi]

Wasn't there supposed to be a black (or near black) one too?

I think that's the grey one. ED reported when he got it that it was lighter than he was expecting. Not sure if he's ordered tests in a darker grey or not.

 

[Christoph.Krn]

I really hope a decent and affordable paint will be found. To me all those units look like cheap brittle toys.

If you want a colored case, buy one color Pyra and one of the announced black cases, then replace the nubs, shoulder buttons, and the inside of the lid with their black counterparts. That should solve/mitigate that "toy" impression. Should theoretically also improve vibrancy and readability of the screen, though with that small of a bezel possibly only unnoticably so.

 

[ptitSeb]

family picture :-D

 

[TrashyMG]

I really hope a decent and affordable paint will be found. To me all those units look like cheap brittle toys.

Well they won't be painted like the Pandora was. The plastic itself will be the colo(u)r.

 

[Klumpen]

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family picture :-D

They look way better in this picture.
I guess in order to show them how they look like in the average user's dwelling/basement, one has to avoid bright lights and camera flashes.

 

[Caine]

If you want a colored case, buy one color Pyra and one of the announced black cases, then replace the nubs, shoulder buttons, and the inside of the lid with their black counterparts. That should solve/mitigate that "toy" impression. Should theoretically also improve vibrancy and readability of the screen, though with that small of a bezel possibly only unnoticably so.

I was referring to this post by ED about the expenses of the "REALLY good" colours. I want a black Pyra, but I am unsure if a good black "colour" has been found in the meantime. I don't recall having read any followups on that. Perhaps I missed it or just misinterpreted ED's message.

Well they won't be painted like the Pandora was. The plastic itself will be the colo(u)r.

Yes, I know. I phrased that poorly, but I am not entirely clear about how the process of creating differently coloured plastics works. So for the lack of a better term I just used "paint". Not entirely sure what the proper term should be.

 

[zmatt]

I would like to examine the TILER code. I'm not a programmer, really, but I like looking at code to see if I can figure out how it works.

https://github.com/mvduin/linux/commits/patch/tiler-fbdev2
(Commits where I'm fully aware I'm doing horrible hacks just to "get it working first, do it properly later" have been marked with XXX.)

So the TILER is fixed now but does that mean hardware/3d acceleration is also sorted? Did I miss news about that?

They're mostly unrelated.

Changing the clock has hardly any influence, it's the voltage that matters.

So I don't know about x86, but on the ARM SoCs I'm familiar with you're required to raise the voltage before increasing the clock and decrease the clock before you can lower the voltage. Clocking is definitely also a major power drain, but there's already extensive clock gating all over the place usually, and lowering the clock speed by itself obviously won't help if you still want to do the same stuff (hence just have less idle time)... unless it lets you lower voltage.

3 of the 6 haven't got the SSD in there, so we need the TILER setup to be fully working.

It's been working for 17 hours already! Where have you been! ;-)
[doublepost=1471547583,1471546776][/doublepost]and it's even been packaged:
< aTc> apt-get install linux-image-4.7.0-letux-pyra-r+