De Pandora Handheld #3

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There won't really be any 'last ones' as we're going straight in to batch2 to try to 'catch up' and have the Pandora ordering happen in real time from Christmas onwards.

It's a huge task which is happening right now, we have gone from nothing to manufacturing and assembling thousands of handhelds.

Next year I want to seriously look in to having our own moulding machines too. I'd like to do everything we can on site.

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 02:40 schreef Maanvis het volgende:
Ik zie dat The Ur-Quan Masters (de open source Star Control 2 dus) is geport naar de pandora.
Ik zou zeggen, probeer dat spel eens, het is (na WoW) m'n favo spel allertijden .

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 10:43 schreef SpankmasterC het volgende:
Gebruik je hem ook actief voor andere dingen dan gaming, bijvoorbeeld browsen? Of is ie daar stiekempjes toch niet helemaal relaxed voor?

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 11:56 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
Oeh, draai je Ubuntu? Ik heb thuis toevallig ook een mediacenter draaien onder linux (knoppmyth), en heb het ook voor elkaar gekregen om via de netwerkschijf de films af te spelen..
Als ik thuis ben zal ik het even opzoeken..

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Setting up for making 400 units this week, PCBs to go in next week.

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The 3000 will be much faster than the first 1000. I know this seems confusing but there was so much to do during the first 1000 which we won't need to repeat on the 3000.

There is a lot happening now to make things much better in the future in terms of production speed and software.

I know some of you would just have us 'build, build, build' but the whole project has been based on being very cautious and getting things as right as possible (measure twice, cut once), and the reason we are still here is because we are so cautious - we want to look after the Pandora project and make sure it's still here for many years to come.

Oh and the first 1000 will have shipped by the end of next week, or at least be finished and be shipping by the end of next week.

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Op dinsdag 6 juli 2010 09:49 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
@bosbeetle, enig idee hoeveel mensen er op de meeting komen?

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Op dinsdag 6 juli 2010 14:44 schreef Punnik het volgende:
kheb nog weinig met die pandora gedaan moet ik bekennen
misschien toch eens iets meer in verdiepen.....

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Op dinsdag 6 juli 2010 14:44 schreef Punnik het volgende:
kheb nog weinig met die pandora gedaan moet ik bekennen
misschien toch eens iets meer in verdiepen.....

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ED has some more info about the continuing production of the first batch of Pandoras:

4000 more cases are produced and currently being painted (hopefully, without the buttons )
1000 or 1500 (we still are thinking about the amount we need) will go via UPS and the rest via sea (it’s cheaper. Takes about 20 – 25 days, but it will take a while until we used up the 1500 cases anyways).

As said, next week, we’ll get about 400 boards that will go into the cases we still have.
I get 3200 LCD cables to solder next week (yay!)

At the moment, a lot of preparation is going on – so that we basically only need to stick the boards in once they arrive.
The last 2500 units will be built way faster than the ones before, as we can prepare everything.

And yes, the additional 1000 cases will also be used to sell you modders out there for spare
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Op vrijdag 9 juli 2010 13:16 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
afgelopen woensdag of komende woensdag
Ik ga volgende week een lang weekend weg, nou hoop ik niet dat hij in die tijd aankomt (op mijn werk). Ik ben anders heel erg geneigd om terug te rijden

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Op dinsdag 13 juli 2010 13:00 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
jeetje,

Ik hoop in ieder geval dat dit niet bij mij gebeurd

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Good news for those who’ve been waiting to join the sitting around party. Second batch preorders have been open for several days now, with a number of forum members already paid up and strapped in for the ride. Assembly and delivery of these units is expected to roll on seamlessly from the first batch, which is estimated for completion in October. Full ordering details at openpandora.org.

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which is estimated for completion in October.

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Gearing up for the 3000 run. Much happening behind the scenes for this, it's a lot of work.

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Consider:

The Pandora should move to Android to get real commercial software and games - plus it's only a matter of time before someone else releases an Android games console (which works well), Pandora should be first.

Discuss...

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Op woensdag 21 juli 2010 13:49 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
Ik had al iets gelezen via de twitter van Craig.
Het zou wel handig zijn om als tweede systeem Android te hebben..

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Op woensdag 21 juli 2010 14:10 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
Zoiets als mijn Dingoo is wel leuk; bij het opstarten op select drukken om in Dingux te komen. Ik gebruik namelijk beide OS-en

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craigix: I've been purposely neutral mainly because I know nothing about it (aside from the java wrapping issue).

Anyhow, interesting reading, I've never used Android myself. This thread just came from a conversation on MSN, since we didn't know much about Android (aside from it showing up in a lot of devices soon) we decided to get the forum opinion on it.

And we certainly got that

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203 boards arriving on Monday with the nubs tested (if UPS don’t mess up).

There are 203 cases ready for those boards to go straight in to so they will ship next week too.

Then we hope it’s all go go go for Aug/Sept.

Every few hundred we make we improve the build process, this is very important to get right since we plan to use this case and system for a couple of years.

Pandora - Quick Overview

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Op zaterdag 24 juli 2010 11:24 schreef Dragonetti het volgende:
edit: laat maar, ik moet nog even goed nadenken...