Some personal stuff - and prototypes building!


Would the other button benefit from an inbuilt spring as well? It would need to be different, but a tongue leading back from it to lever back against the case back edge might be possible?
The bottom buttons had been allready modified with springs.ED had mantion it allready in a video.For the top buttons though were a huge problem cause were no space to modified metal springs.So here we are with the plastic Spring :)
 
Plastic springs are used in the industry in heavy machinery and also as shock absorbers, so I don't see why it should not work on smaller scale per se. If it works for the specific usecase needs to be tested, but that is what @azouls is planning to do anyways. So I won't distrust plastic spring per se. Of course it needs to be tested, especially as the shape is unusual (polyurethane springs usually seem to be tube-shaped). So let's just wait and see how the test will turn out.
 
Plastic springs are used in the industry in heavy machinery and also as shock absorbers, so I don't see why it should not work on smaller scale per se. If it works for the specific usecase needs to be tested, but that is what @azouls is planning to do anyways. So I don't would distrust plastic spring per se. Of course it has to be tested, especially as the shape is unusual (polyurethane springs usually seem to be tube-shaped). So let's just wait and see how the test will turn out.
Probably will be made from ACETAL and not from polyurethane.i will do both to check it out but i believe Acetal will be the one that will do better job for spring
 
Thank you very much my friends. If there are people here who knows how to design i am open for ideas that has to do for the outside look of the button since dint create the mold yet
Now, I don't actually know how well this will work, but from my recollection the original design has horizontal crests and troughs on one button (perhaps the bottom one; I'd have to check) and vertical ones on the other. The idea being, that when you place your fingers on the buttons you could feel which one you were on without having to spin the unit round to check. Other similar ideas are spots and stripes. Maybe having a lip on the hinged edge like in your prototype picture might be enough to home your fingers, but given the unusual shape of them, perhaps being able to feel the divide between them might be a useful feature as well. Some kind of mockup is probably required to test this.
 
The bottom buttons had been allready modified with springs.ED had mantion it allready in a video.For the top buttons though were a huge problem cause were no space to modified metal springs.So here we are with the plastic Spring :)
So all four shoulders will have springs? That should make for great feel/feedback!
 
Good Morning all.We found a way to use Metal spring for the Top Buttons too.Today i had sended Both Datas to create new 3D Printing samples.Also had fixed the Data of the Plastic spring button.The Button with the metal Spring will be modifed in the Mold that we allready having.The button with the plastic spring Mold needs to be created from the start (free of charge) .Both ways are correct and we will choose the best one.As soon as i have the samples i will create a video for ED and move forward PS: This information had been sended to ED just now as i type here on the same time
 

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Good Morning all.We found a way to use Metal spring for the Top Buttons too.Today i had sended Both Datas to create new 3D Printing samples.Also had fixed the Data of the Plastic spring button.The Button with the metal Spring will be modifed in the Mold that we allready having.The button with the plastic spring Mold needs to be created from the start (free of charge) .Both ways are correct and we will choose the best one.As soon as i have the samples i will create a video for ED and move forward PS: This information had been sended to ED just now as i type here on the same time
I see, the plastic spring got thinner. Before, I was wondering, if the wall of the case, against which the thick plastic spring would push, could stand the pressure. :)
Do the different shades of green represent different plastics - or is it just random?
 
I see, the plastic spring got thinner. Before, I was wondering, if the wall of the case, against which the thick plastic spring would push, could stand the pressure. :)
Do the different shades of green represent different plastics - or is it just random?

Nothing Spectacular about the color in the Data but yeah there are two deferend Buttons . The ButtonMetalSpring picture has a metal spring placement .The ButtonPlasticSpring picture has the plastic Spring modified on the button.
 
Good Morning all.We found a way to use Metal spring for the Top Buttons too.Today i had sended Both Datas to create new 3D Printing samples.Also had fixed the Data of the Plastic spring button.The Button with the metal Spring will be modifed in the Mold that we allready having.The button with the plastic spring Mold needs to be created from the start (free of charge) .Both ways are correct and we will choose the best one.As soon as i have the samples i will create a video for ED and move forward PS: This information had been sended to ED just now as i type here on the same time

Thanks a lot for your updates! I am very happy to see that the biggest current issue with Pyra is moving forward very nicely!
 
I guess we have a confirmed release time for the Pyra now.

Spring!

:p
I hope its spring 2020 or earlier,
My mobile phone is slowly dying on me.
The charging connector has contact problems after 17 years, so I have to take out & charge the battery external once a week.

It would be sad when I would have to buy a new phone that short before the Pyra gets released.
 
I hope its spring 2020 or earlier,
My mobile phone is slowly dying on me.
The charging connector has contact problems after 17 years, so I have to take out & charge the battery external once a week.

It would be sad when I would have to buy a new phone that short before the Pyra gets released.

I have gone through that very same dilemma three times over. Since then I have bought:
Samsung's Galaxy Note 3
Planet Computers Gemini
LG V35 ThinQ
And I have a pre-order in on a Planet Computers Cosmo.

In the meantime, I have switched mobile carriers twice. At some point I rather gave up on the Pyra being my 'next primary phone', though I am still looking forward to it being my data connected mobile gaming/recreation device.
 
I hope its spring 2020 or earlier, […] It would be sad when I would have to buy a new phone that short before the Pyra gets released.
I have been in this situation for about a year now …
Personally I think if the Pyra doesn't come out this year it'll never come out because money for development will run out (though I have no special insight into the project's financials – I'm just infering from ED's statements here), so I personally hope for sometime in Q3.
 
I have been in this situation for about a year now …
Personally I think if the Pyra doesn't come out this year it'll never come out because money for development will run out (though I have no special insight into the project's financials – I'm just infering from ED's statements here), so I personally hope for sometime in Q3.
Pre-orderers have already paid a good chunk of the money already, favorable amount of sales from ED's shop Dragonbox.de has also helped keep the project alive too.
 
I have gone through that very same dilemma three times over. Since then I have bought:
Samsung's Galaxy Note 3
Planet Computers Gemini
LG V35 ThinQ
And I have a pre-order in on a Planet Computers Cosmo.

In the meantime, I have switched mobile carriers twice. At some point I rather gave up on the Pyra being my 'next primary phone', though I am still looking forward to it being my data connected mobile gaming/recreation device.

:) It`s pretty much the same for me:
Note3 -> Note Edge -> Gemini PDA -> Cosmo Communicator
But still I am very exited for a real Linux mobile desktop system for my daily administrational needs.
And since a second SIM card on the same contract is nearly free, I will use the LTE modem on the Pyra too when I am on the go.
The Gemini gets more and more unstable, software and hardware wise, so if the Pyra will get the desired phone funktion, even rudementary, it will be a great backup as a "primary" phone.
 
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