Update regarding the cases (and some other things)


I grew up in a town in the Anthracite region of Pennsylvania (Pennsyltuckey). There is no gray in Antracite, it is a shiny black, sometimes it even peacocks and turns a rainbow of colors.

Definitely true and plain to see in every natural history exhibit, however I believe that if we are talking an industrial color and a thing manufactured in Germany where RAL is king, 'anthracite' most likely means RAL 7016 'Anthracite gray'. In my former workplace (aluminium and pvc window factory) this used to be a pretty standard color for both powder coating and plastic film, but I looking around get the feeling that it is pretty common in other industries.

So in this context I believe most people mean the hex code of (for some reason I can't paste a link to the kind of site that generates these colors, but they'd be distorted on most monitors anyway):
#383e42
 
Anyway, the produced cases should be 100% perfect physically (and with 50 sets, I can test the tolerances as well) and can assemble all the prototypes.

I'm anxiously awaiting news of the arrival of boxes of case parts. Silly, I know.
 
I'm still rooting for velvety deep dark red with a keymat in a warm beige and a dark LCD frame. The latter not a dark colour, but dark dark.

And if that's not a go, then make the first 1k a screeming safety orange.
 
If you want the keymat in a warm beige, you'll have to be willing to buy 1000 of them. Perhaps you could get some friends to chip in... :)

-Neelix
 
no worries, i probably jinxed us ;)
of course, "soon" on a geologic timescale can mean a few years...
Well this supervulcano is a bit weirder than the usual. Last time it errupted (a bit over 500y) have been a pain for (just) italia.
But one of it's previous erruption (~40000y) is belived to be one of the main reason of the demise of neandertalis by covering all europ (and a bit of north africa) by a thick strate of hash which had a large impact on life (plants, plant eater animals, and so their predator : humans) and it cooled the earth by 2 degrees...
So having an idea of the impact of one of its erruption is a bit of gamble.

But yeah, the article is not even news. there's rumor on the net about this for over 2 years now (like : http://www.2012un-nouveau-paradigme...-centre-des-preoccupations-scientifiques.html) and we may not see its next erruption within our life... but it can also be tommorow.
If you realy want to be afraid of a volcano, yellowstone too is waking up, and that could be a world-wide event...
 
just what we need to combat global warming! though of course, with a few other (bad) side effects.
 
If you want the keymat in a warm beige, you'll have to be willing to buy 1000 of them. Perhaps you could get some friends to chip in... :)

-Neelix
What, you think me selfish? I really wouldn't mind, if everybody got that gorgeous warm beige keymat instead of a dull black one.
 
That thought honestly had not crossed my mind. I just wanted to let you know what you were in for if you were serious. I already asked ED about getting custom keymats printed. IIRC minimum order quantity is 1000, and I think he said the cost would come to ~$10 each. So if you really wanted to get such a keymat printed you'd have to raise about $10000.

-Neelix
 
That thought honestly had not crossed my mind. I just wanted to let you know what you were in for if you were serious. I already asked ED about getting custom keymats printed. IIRC minimum order quantity is 1000, and I think he said the cost would come to ~$10 each. So if you really wanted to get such a keymat printed you'd have to raise about $10000.

-Neelix

Woot, it's keyboard derailing time! I vote for swiss-french by the way!
 
That thought honestly had not crossed my mind. I just wanted to let you know what you were in for if you were serious. I already asked ED about getting custom keymats printed. IIRC minimum order quantity is 1000, and I think he said the cost would come to ~$10 each. So if you really wanted to get such a keymat printed you'd have to raise about $10000.

-Neelix
I got, where you were getting at. That's why I suggested to just make it the standard. I guess the pyra will come with a keypad, won't it? :) And while we're at it, let's make Neo2 the layout for those.
(I cannot come up with the greatest and not wanna share)
 
why don't we have anybody stalking ED yet like i asked?

get someone else to video though, and have [ED] working on the pyra inside... and heavy breathing with the camera-person...

it would stop him from having to do the video work ;). excited for the cases to arrive!
 
Note - there was tweet news today about minor adjustments to the dpad. Apparently that was the last piece of the Keypad needing adjustment.

I like that we're seeing bits & pieces being finalized. Getting closer step by step.
 
Note - there was tweet news today about minor adjustments to the dpad. Apparently that was the last piece of the Keypad needing adjustment.

I like that we're seeing bits & pieces being finalized. Getting closer step by step.
I hope. Im getting genuinely itchy fingers for a pyra. I fear it will be some time more before mass production. Still, I wait.
 
I think he said they rounded the edges of the caps on the keyboard, so it probably won't help with itchy fingers.

IMO, black is the best choice for the standard keyboard since it will look decent with a wide variety of case colors.

Please send more keyboard discussion! :D
[doublepost=1495134242,1495134197][/doublepost]Oh, and case info/pics/videos. We really want those.
 
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