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{{Infobox Video game system
| title        = DragonBox Pyra
| logo         = [[File:Pyra_logo-full.svg|200px]]
| image        = [[File:Pyra-Render-frontside-new.png|250px]]
| caption      = Rendering of a red Pyra
| manufacturer = OpenPandora GmbH
| type         = [[Handheld game console]] / [[Ultra-Mobile PC|UMPC]] / [[Personal digital assistant|PDA]] hybrid
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The Pyra design aims for modularity and openness in software as hardware alike. For instance the [[Printed circuit board|PCB]] is separated in three parts: CPU board (CPU, RAM and storage), mainboard (ports, [[Wi-Fi]] and Bluetooth) and the display board. The replaceable CPU board allows future upgrades of CPU and RAM. The Pyra is assembled with screws (not glued) and is therefore repair and modification friendly.

It was announced that the hardware [[schematics]] will be available (
final license unannouncdecided), which would make the Pyra a kind of [[Open source hardware]].<ref>[https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/ Pyra] on pyra-handheld.com ''"Full schematics will be available: You could. i.e. design your own custom mainboard and use Pyras CPU board to run it."'' (1 May 2016)</ref> For compliance with the [[Free Software Foundation]]'s "[[Respects Your Freedom]]" certificate the closed source SGX GPU driver was identified as the only remaining software roadblock ("would be good to have free drivers, but we can't achieve this for the GPU" but the device may or may not run without a 3D driver, possibly free 2D driver is available or either could be made).<ref>[https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/respects-your-freedom-certification.72124/page-32 respects-your-freedom-certification] on pyra-handheld.com</ref> The certification is not only about bundled software, using proprietary software, or recommending it, such as non-free [emulated] games, but also about naming, e.g. [[Linux]] vs. [[GNU/Linux naming controversy|GNU/Linux]]. In November 2016 a pre-release version of the Pyra schematics was made available under a [[CC BY-NC-SA]] license.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/power-memory-and-schematics.78631/ |title=Power, Memory and Schematics |publisher=pyra-handheld.com by |author=Michael Mrozek |quote=As promised, the Pyra will be more open than the Pandora and Nikolaus had some time to clean up the schematics! Attached to this post are the schematics for the current revision (5.1.3) of the Pyra. Unless a bug is found, these won't change anymore.[...] License is CC-BY-NC-SA |date=2016-11-20}}</ref>

=== Software ===
The [[operating system]] will be based on the common [[open source]] [[Linux distribution]] [[Debian]] which allows the use of already available desktop [[open source]] applications from the Debian repository, for instance [[Firefox]], [[Thunderbird (software)|Thunderbird]], [[LibreOffice]], [[GIMP]] etc. The around 1,500 applications, created for the mostly open source OpenPandora software [[Software repository|ecosystem]],<ref>[https://repo.openpandora.org/ repo.openpandora.org] &(contracted; show full){{Handheld game consoles}}

[[Category:Handheld game consoles]]
[[Category:Linux-based devices]]
[[Category:Personal digital assistants]]
[[Category:Embedded Linux]]
[[Category:Texas Instruments hardware]]
[[Category:Open-source video games]]