This is allready planed, also on the first try whit the Pandora..
Production Pyra photos/videos/thoughts thread
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Thanks for your kind words, it was my first video at all, i think at the pyra, i will have to first make notes what i want to say, and i have to look first how the correct words are, so i ditnt have that much thinking breaks in it
These "ähm" s where just there because i needet to remember the Translation...
This means, i want make the Pyra Video maybe on a Sunday, so i have enough time for preparing
It was interessting and not that divicult i though
These "ähm" s where just there because i needet to remember the Translation...
This means, i want make the Pyra Video maybe on a Sunday, so i have enough time for preparing
It was interessting and not that divicult i though
ClockworkCoder
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Your speech is absolutely fine, and that was a really nice demonstration; thanks for sharing! I haven't actually seen many videos of the Pandora in action either, and the last time I actively looked was several years ago, so seeing this while knowing that the Pyra will be more awesome in every way makes me even more stoked!
I just wish "2 months" wasn't the catch-phrase, as I know I'll be waiting at least that time before mine finally can arrive.
levi
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Theise ähm's sounded just like English erm's to my ear, with a slight german accent. Even people speaking English intersperse their speech with those as they try to come up with the right word, so I almost didn't notice them at all.
Some people record their audio after filming. Maybe you could record it with audio then ditch that audio, and do it again under more controlled settings, so you have the timings more or less right for what you want to say, but that is a chunk more work, and it wasn't at all for hard for me to follow what you said live, so I'd propose this video to be a success.
So we now have tereing to match up with the sirring sound. Do you get tereing when you do too much sirring?
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Well, im happy that it worked out whit the one take videos, i dont know how to mix sound whit the allready filmed video...
The noise may come from my small fridge i have near my desc for Schokolade or other things, and my Pandora make also some noise..
Next time, i will thoug about my speaking bevor, and try to speak more natural
The noise may come from my small fridge i have near my desc for Schokolade or other things, and my Pandora make also some noise..
Next time, i will thoug about my speaking bevor, and try to speak more natural
levi
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I'm not sure what the noise was; I thought it might be traffic noise since it was quite brief (maybe a couple of seconds) and it didn't really interrupt your speech. Fridges generally run for longer than that. Your pandora only creaks and clicks when you press it, and produces sweet sweet music when you played GBC, and I personally wouldnt classify any of that as simple 'noise'.
If your next video shows your fresh number 28 Pyra I doubt I'd even notice any background noise.
If your next video shows your fresh number 28 Pyra I doubt I'd even notice any background noise.
Confuzzled
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Not brilliant for people who are colour-blind. I would suggest using blinking, with different rhythms and/or mark-space ratios to indicate battery level.
Off - charger not plugged in, unpowered, or otherwise not working.
Mostly off with one short flash per second: Between zero and 25%
Mostly off with a double short flash per second: between 25% and 50%
Off for half a second, on for half a second: between 50% and 75%
Continuous flashing: between 75% and 100%
On continuously: Fully charged.
The above is only a suggestion, and not a hill upon which I wish to die. Percentages, mark-space ratios and rhythms just an example for discussion.
λ the β-Redex Reducer
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Combine colours and blinking so that the led can indicate 2 different kinds of information. One should be battery level but the other could be for whether it's connected to power.
Silent-Hunter
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Why not an option? I don't want the lights to blink, but I want it too be an option for colourblind people.
levi
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It's my understanding that to people who are red/green colourblind (the majority of colourblind people I believe) then green appears brighter than red. Blinking might be slightly easier to interpret still than an isolated LED of differing intensity, but as a non-colourblind person, I appreciate the simplicity of red/amber/green.
how about waving (i.e. change the intensity a bit so we see a patterm but not on/off/on/off). And blinking only for when it's drained.
How do people feel about blinking the keyboard (or pyra symbol when closed) Just before automatically shutting down to protect the battery from drain.
levi
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Yes, the shutdown process should probably alert the user using as many low power abilites that the Pyra has, including LEDs. Be aware that if it flashes the Pyra symbol, I don't believe this is visible from outside. I assume that if you've set your Pyra aside, you still need to be aware that it's just shut down because it ran out of battery.
ToastBucket
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Everybody wants something different 
I’m working to make this customizable via the uEnv.txt file so you can configure the behavior however you want. To start it will be hardcoded to a particular management loop but I will working on making it configurable soon after.
I’m working to make this customizable via the uEnv.txt file so you can configure the behavior however you want. To start it will be hardcoded to a particular management loop but I will working on making it configurable soon after.
levi
Still fresh, damnit!
Yes, looking at the schematics, the lid illumination LEDs come into the lid via an i2c line which gets decoded on the display board and used to illiminate the two RGB LEDs. The current configuration is to light them the same as the internal lights alongside the power button I think, but that seems to all be done in software, so can be changed.
Edit: And maybe it can all be done by editing a text file in the end
Edit: And maybe it can all be done by editing a text file in the end
ToastBucket
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Yes, looking at the schematics, the lid illumination LEDs come into the lid via an i2c line which gets decoded on the display board and used to illiminate the two RGB LEDs. The current configuration is to light them the same as the internal lights alongside the power button I think, but that seems to all be done in software, so can be changed.
Edit: And maybe it can all be done by editing a text file in the end
Not quite. There’s two LED controllers, one for the power/status LEDs on the same board and one for the lid status LEDs. They are the same chip, but on different buses so are controlled separately. Right now the bootloader does nothing with the lid LEDs but this will change soon.
Also, it should be noted I identified a hardware bug a few days ago that prevents software control of the red line in the center LED. There is a status line that comes from the charger chip that indicates whether we are charging or there is some sort of fault. This is wired up to the red line of the center LED. It should be able to be disabled via a GPIO, but due to the hardware bug it cannot be. Therefore the center LED always has red illuminated while charging. I’m going to look for a way to disable the status line in the charger chip but I don’t think there is one, plus we don’t really want to do that. This line is useful for indicating charging when there is no SW running
Whit this whole Blinking Lights Discussion, my small video may drown in the abbys of off topic ;(..
But its ok, my next Video of the Pyra will be much more important..
But its ok, my next Video of the Pyra will be much more important..
Confuzzled
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Well done for finding the hardware bug!
It makes life complicated for ED. I guess he will need to collect together all the known bugs and work out whether it is a good use of time and resources to produce a revised hardware that resolves the known bugs. I do not envy him that decision.
