jhsa wrote:
What? You guys must be joking..
Did you lose your mind?? These are the most selfish comments I've read on this forum till today..
The stock board should be supported only for fixing bugs??
Leave further development of the stock board to HobbyKing??
Why do you think that only because you guys have the skyboard the other should not be developed anymore?
What makes you so special over all the other hundreds or even thousands of people that have the modded 9x stock board??
And developed by hobbyking? If I was Erazz and Mike I would take that as an offense after all the work they had on it.
Well, I don't think it is selfish. It is economics. let's analyze the economics. All these good things we have now is a result of the stock board development. But time has passed, new things emerge.
all the improvement for stock board have been great. But it is no longer 'stock' any more with all the additional boards added. yes, you can swap the chip to a better chip. And it takes time for further improvement/testing/coding.
so let's do the math:
a Skyboard is 95 with spker
for stock board:
IP : 30
telemetry EZ: 15-20?
voice board and parts on it: 15-20?
new spker: 5
additonal eeprom: 5?
new processor: 8?
that is about 93.00 plus many many soldering , desoldering with potential accidental messup and redo. add multiple shipping cost for each item.
SKy9x board is from one source, only one shipping. no soldering time. online is 1hr. many many extra header for potential expansion, much more powerful processor.
I have a 3rd T9X I am going to do possibly all the upgrades above, but that is just for fun and learning.
for a better tx, Skyboard makes much more sense economically.
Also from development point of view. each time I see Mike is doing great job trying to squeeze out more memory to do the new code. that is time taken. All at the same time, there is a board with all the power needed just for coding.
For new user of T9X, I don't see ANY point of doing all those modular upgrade. time and money neither makes any sense to me. for existing users, sure, add those would be great. But with attrition, not many T9X stock board left soon. Especially for people opt for SP, my guess is a large percentage of that is not comfortable with fine soldering (like I was
) Those people are probably not the candidates for the other upgrade either.
With a new T9X (not the 9XR) for 60 plus 95 for Sky9x, one can get a hack of Tx that beat Futaba, Spectrum 8ch and can get it up and running in 30 min to an hr, just plug and play. That is simple economics. money and time.
With Mike's (and others) capability, think how much he can squeeze out of the Sky9X board.
Putting these wonderful capable people's talent to develop better sensors for Frysky ... etc.. That would have more impact on what we can have.
Keep developing stock board is just to 'catch up' what SKY9X already can do and not saving money/time.
when I started using ER9X, got myself a SP (for 45 at the time). and 2 months later, the Sky board was in the drawing. I never looked back again. As I said, I will do my 3rd Tx with stock board just for the fun and learning experience. But I think most users still prefer spending more time to fly and have more functions from the program instead of doing soldering and debugging.
A new guy coming for er9x , would I recommend upgrade with sp, telemetry EZ.... absolutely not. go straight to SKY9X. Because, he would end up saving money and time and end up with a much better tx/board over all and start learning using er9x/variant and fly very quickly.
There was a time it is fantastic doing all these upgrades. but that time has passed. With Frysky tx in the loom, who knows what would be the new pet.
That is just my 2 cents. It really is not selfish, it is just an objective evaluation of time and money and what you can get, both developer and user's.
. Life throws many curve balls at you!
