Posts Tagged ‘evildragon’
November 9, 2011
Posted by: Kloplop321
Evildragon and Craig(who was cursed with a moldy ceiling), went to Blackpool to the Replay Expo 2011!
That means they are done now
Many team members, including our repo guy, milkshake, and our friend who lost his name badge along the way, PokeParadox, met and made it on camera!
Furthermore, many visitors found the device quite interesting.
May88′s impressions, photos, videos and more can be found in this article!
Regarding the movement of parts from the dastardly CircuitCo(In Texas) to GlobalComponents(In Germany), the customs documents have been completed.
A prototype run of the PCB is anticipated during this month(November).
As resource costs, such as copper have changed, EvilDragon has requested a quote so that we may soon get the Yet-To-Be TV Cables! Maybe this time Iceland’s volcanoes and South America’s tectonic plates won’t screw us over.
Lastly, an individual that goes by Delicator will be helping busy EvilDragon with the main site with features like a croudsourced gallery, user generated content, and integration with the forum
Full post and source after the jump!
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Posted in Hardware, Official, Pandora, Uncategorized | Tagged Community, customs, evildragon, gathering, global components, replay expo, retro, tv cables, tv out, website | 3 Comments »
November 1, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
No news, but an announcement: Replay Expo (Arcade, Video Games, Retro) will be happening on 5th and 6th of November in Blackpool (UK) and part of the Pandora Team (Craig and EvilDragon) as well as a few members of the community will be attending.
EvilDragon also managed to secure a table in the “tournament hall”, so there will be an official Pandora “booth” and a Super Geometry Dust tournament. Additionally he will give a talk about the Pandora on Sunday.
The Expo itself holds numerous arcade machines, consoles and computer from all generations for you to play as well as a few tournaments and talks.
You can find more details and discussion here and here, official announcement post after the break.
Oh and Craig is bringing Cake and you should, too.
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Posted in Community, Official, Pandora | Tagged Community, craig, evildragon, expo, meet, replay, team | 10 Comments »
May 21, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
Update: The webcam is now offline, tune in next time.
Update: Here is a HTML-only version for viewing on a Pandora or a general Flash-less environment. Thanks zLouD!
Original post:
[EvilDragon]Hi!
I’ll spend the next hours repairing Pandoras or replacing LCD cables that were broken from the very beginning as well as changing nubs, etc.
I thought you might join me, so you can:
http://www.openpandora.org/webcam/
You can also talk in #openpandora on freenode, I try to follow it at the same time 
If that above link does not work for you for some reason try to open this link as a stream in VLC.
Discuss here!
Posted in Official, Pandora | Tagged cam, evildragon, repair, stream | 11 Comments »
April 16, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
The new LCD cables are here, 2000 of them.
Those cables have been manufactured by a specialist for flexible cables and (hopefully) will eliminate the dreaded “purple tint of death”(tm) some users have experienced.
However the remaining (old) cables will still be used as the team has improved the building process over the past units and the last shipments had a drastically reduced failure rate. So there is no need to throw them away and to everyone worrying: The new cables will not improve the quality of the image or reduce ghosting, they are just more flexible and sturdy and will less likely break.
EvilDragon also posts some more numbers from CircuitCo, which you can read in his full post:
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Posted in Official, Pandora | Tagged Boards, cable, CircuitCo, evildragon, gp2x, LCD, purple, shop, tint, tour | 25 Comments »
April 5, 2011
Posted by: gruso
EvilDragon has shared another email full of figures from CircuitCo. We could get used to this flow of information. Bear in mind that these numbers relate to just one aspect of the Pandora, and aren’t the whole picture of production. As usual, if you have Q’s, hit the source link for A’s.
Some might’ve seen I haven’t posted much since Wednesday… I had a lot of work in my other job, so I’m sorry for the lack of updates.
This means, that I’m late again with telling you guys the latest status from CircuitCo – the numbers I’ll post here are the status from March 29th.
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Posted in Hardware, Official | Tagged Boards, CircuitCo, evildragon, production | 15 Comments »
March 8, 2011
Posted by: gruso
The long awaited Hotfix 5 has landed, after a string of betas and RCs. If you’re running HF5 RC2 then there’s not a lot new in this list, but if you’re languishing on Hotfix 4 you’ve got some updatin’ to do. As usual the Hotfix is available in PND form or as a complete firmware image. Read on for the change list and download link.
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Posted in Hardware, Official, OS Updates, Software | Tagged CircuitCo, craigix, evildragon, hotfix, OS, production | 22 Comments »
February 28, 2011
Posted by: gruso
EvilDragon has received the long awaited board production schedule from CircuitCo, courtesy of the new guy, who we will henceforth refer to as the new guy. The information within may explain Craig’s optimistic tweet a few hours back.
You might’ve read it on the other thread already: We really got a schedule this time!
And we also got some more information about the whole process – for the very first time from CC!
It seems like it was a good idea to hire the new guy, he seems to know what he’s doing and tries to bring order into the Pandora chaos 
He apologized for any inconveniences we had so far as well and he hopes to be able to repair our confidence with CircuitCo – that’s something that sounds good to me!
Additionally, CircuitCo has increased the personnel and doubled the amount of machines they have, to increase production speed.
He analyzed the situation and told us what the bottleneck in the Pandora production is – after all, they thought they can do 500 a week at the beginning, which certainly isn’t possible.
He wants to help us improve to improve the last remaining issues in the future, so that the production should really be faster and more reliable.
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Posted in Hardware, Official | Tagged Boards, CircuitCo, craigix, evildragon, production | 26 Comments »
