ClockworkCoder
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It looks gorgeous! Good choice with the dark chrome!
Let him get one immediately. A new horse can run fasterWhile the hardware is finished and we're only waiting for the arrival of some stuff, we have awesome news regarding the Pyra lowlevel stuff!
3D in combination with TILER works now!
According to ptitSeb (who created the video), it runs a lot smoother in real life, but the camera had some weird shutter / framerate issues (which also explains the heavily flickering keyboard LEDs).
So, what happened?
davesha (a member here on the board who also preordered a Pyra) bought himself an OMAP5 uEVM Devboard to help out with the issues. Well, and you can see the result!
He fixed the stuff without owning a Pyra (with the help of aTc, zmatt and tmlind, you were replying to questions and helped out testing it on a Pyra on IRC as well)
And he's not yet done - he's currently working on optimizing even more.
This is pretty awesome news - it means that the software will be a lot more mature as we expected when delivery happens
Now, there's one thing: It would help if he had a Pyra to work on. It would make debugging, etc. a lot more easy for him - and it would help us to get a more mature software in faster time.
I've got a few retail units here already (without packaging, etc. though) and would love to send him his unit already - but he's a bit further down the queue.
I think it would be great if I let him SKIP the line - and finish his order right away (sending him packaging and the rest of the experience later on).
He already proved that he can help and I'm pretty sure it would bea good thing for all of us.
But I don't want to decide that myself. You supported the Pyra, you helped out and you're the ones still waiting for it! So here's a poll - please let me know if davesha should be allowed to skip the queue and become the first delivered preorder - or not.
Let him get one immediately. A new horse can run faster
Fuck, no. Not Dartford!The Pyra is now on British soil, in Dartford. I suspect it ended up on the slow land/sea route due to the lithium battery.
This means it should arrive tomorrow.
LETTTT’SSSSSS GOOOOOOOOIt's here! More photos after dinner View attachment 36240
True, but we revealed the Pyra before any design work had started whereas the Pandora was at board revision 3 at that time already, so a lot further developed.
He does not.
It's still that he's waiting to get all the housings coated AFAIK.
And as soon as that has happened I'll help him assemble the first 500 Pyras.
Sounds great, even if whe ditnt know yet how long it will take until the Cases are Coated, as the Coating Company is still in Germany, it shouldnd be that long..
Doesn't really sound great. Last updates were on May 4th ("Coating company will resume work tomorrow") and on June 25 ("Still waiting for coated cases"), so no progress has been made for nearly three months.
Our bodies are ready, ED.Cases ARE already being coated and assembly will start in about 2 - 3 weeks.
We will first assemble the upper part and then the lower one, so don't expect shipments to happen right away, but we're getting there.
I'll also create a survey to every preorder soon to figure out how many black and dark chrome coatings I need.