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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player
Llorean:
--- Quote from: casainho on March 13, 2009, 09:30:15 AM ---I believe in the idea "design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player (DAP) and recorder, for use with RockBox." I remember that others developers as Bagder told since begin that didn't believe on it because we can't do an attractive looking player as Ipods or Sansas.
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Many of us also don't believe in it because your hardware will cost two or three times as much as players we already support (if not much more, many refurbished players can be had in the USD15-95 range), and do less than them.
--- Quote from: casainho on March 13, 2009, 09:30:15 AM ---So, I am trying to make that idea real, as the best as I can, with the money, free time and knowledge I have. I don't fell responsible for implement the others expectations about a kind of this hardware.
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Rockbox is not designed to sell. By necessity you must sell hardware unless you expect people to buy the parts and build their own. So Rockbox does not need to be designed with others' expectations. Something you intend to ask people to give you money for, does. If you can't realize this (and it seems like you haven't still) you're giong to be in a lot of trouble.
--- Quote from: casainho on March 13, 2009, 09:30:15 AM --- For now I am thinking like this, even If am I doing it in a wrong way: "We are doers. We do what others only talk about." -- taken from http://www.haxx.se/
And I am sure that Rockbox code started for being a simple line of codes and did evolution, so in hardware I think we should do the same.
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Code is different from hardware. You CANNOT treat it exactly the same. Code is cheap. All it costs anyone is time, which can be spare. It can evolve, pieces of it can be replaced, at little or no monetary cost.
Hardware requires cost. You've built a dev-board that you cannot sell effectively without redesigning. That means that anyone working on code for it will, at some point, have to buy hardware again (for the new design). Then they'll have to write new code (for the new drivers). This could've been avoided by trying to figure out what your target audience was, and picking hardware appropriate for it, initially.
Anyone who's bought your dev-board will be out any money they've invested in this project, with it effectively wasted since the devboard was never needed in the first place.
Yes, sometimes you need new hardware designs. But you should NEVER spend money and time working on a hardware design you know in advance you don't intend to keep. It simply isn't good time (or money) management.
casainho:
Hello :-)
Because of this reason:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6751.msg146274#msg146274 ,
we had change the name from "Rockbox Player" to "Lyre".
We wanted a name from an animal (nature connection) and we think of a
hardware running Rockbox as colorful (Rockbox themes are great!) and
with great sound. We had a few names but we ended up with "Lyre":
"A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian
birds, most notable for their superb ability to mimic natural and
artificial sounds from their environment."
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrebird ; Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
But wait, Lyre is also the name of an instrument:
"The lyre (from Greek λÏÏα - lyra) is a stringed musical instrument
well known for its use in classical antiquity and later. The
recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by lyre playing."
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyre ; Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN8LcLIgH3Q
So we have both, the name of a bird and of an instrument.
AlexP:
--- Quote from: casainho on March 13, 2009, 11:21:47 AM ---Hello :-)
Because of this reason:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6751.msg146274#msg146274 ,
we had change the name from "Rockbox Player" to "Lyre".
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I think that is an excellent name! :)
Llorean:
I would agree, it's an excellent name choice.
LambdaCalculus:
Agreed as well. It's a nice name.
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