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Pandora’s EXT port pinout

January 13, 2010
Posted by: gruso

Hardware hackers, crazed peripheral inventors, quiet fans of pins: MWeston has posted the pic you’ve been waiting for. Some of these details have done the rounds already, but never before in such pleasing diagrammatic form. Click to enlarge, save a copy, profit.

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35 comments

  1. Dun! Dun! Dun!

         by dingoo January 13, 2010 at 8:50 pm

  2. Brilliant, hope I ordered one of those cables.

         by Sphinx January 13, 2010 at 8:56 pm

  3. Hmm, I wonder what that missing label is all about.

         by Butterman January 13, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    • Heh, I didn’t notice that. Ah well, it wouldn’t be Pandora news if there wasn’t some speculation on the side. :D

      By the way, you just made PandoraPress’s 8,000th comment.

           by gruso January 13, 2010 at 9:27 pm

      • Key.

             by Sphinx January 13, 2010 at 9:43 pm

      • Que?

             by gruso January 13, 2010 at 9:49 pm

      • I fixed the picture Gruso. I was so focused on the signals, that I forgot the power. You can grab it again and update if you would like.

             by MWeston January 14, 2010 at 10:13 am

    • I hope it’s free. What an excellent way to make a custom external antenna if you wire it to that pin. The current antenna looks woefully inadequate.

           by BackAssward January 14, 2010 at 1:02 am

      • Anything over an inch and an eighth long is wasted.

             by Sphinxter January 14, 2010 at 11:00 am

        • Is that what you tell the little lady?

          But in all seriousness, are you going to actually make the point that all those consumer products (and professional products) are wasting money with bi antenna, when an IC board with an inch+ of electrical wiring on it is as good ass it gets?

          The Radio industry could use a brilliant mind like yours. Fuck, Car’s and Cell phones have been mangled so far by having huge antenna they didn’t need.

               by BackAssward January 15, 2010 at 1:41 pm

    • It’s probably just VCC, since it should have one and they forgot to label it.

           by Keiji January 14, 2010 at 1:47 am

      • I bet you’re right. It’s also next to the other video pins and gnd, so that makes the most sense.

             by BackAssward January 14, 2010 at 4:41 am

        • I would agree, because the vcc is missing. In some rare case I also could be a second ground, as tv-out Y/C could have a separate ground. But in that case the labeled one would be named GND-C or Y.
          The casing is probably also ground, but that isn’t labeled either.

               by DaanP January 14, 2010 at 9:35 am

  4. Woohoo! Very pleased to finally see this!

         by Dragon January 13, 2010 at 9:05 pm

  5. Just randomly splurting out a question here…

    Would it be possible to use some sort of gadget to, perhaps, throw visual data through the USB-port (or some other Pandora awesome-port) and convert it to a more HD format, for greater resolutions than the standard tv-out one?

    (Questions such as “why would you want that” will be respectfully and completely ignored.)

    I did see something the other day, a USB graphics card, which I suppose would work with the right drivers, but it’s not the same thing that I’m asking for I think. Perhaps.

         by Karma January 13, 2010 at 9:27 pm

    • There are a number of USB->video devices out there, and it’s come up a bit in the forums. AFAIK the main drawback is that it’s a very CPU-heavy undertaking. Once the first batch ships it’ll be interesting to see what sort of tests people carry out. But the cautious advice for now is not to expect any useful results.

           by gruso January 13, 2010 at 9:36 pm

      • I have a IOGear USB Laptop KVM Switch the speed is not fast enough. Works ok, though I don’t recommend video.

        What it does is create a window through usb to the computer it is connected to… neat, it will be great with usb 3. I hope IOGear will make a 2nd version with it.

        Anyhow forget it for P1.

             by joe January 13, 2010 at 10:14 pm

  6. Is that male or female? Just need to konw

         by joe January 13, 2010 at 10:08 pm

    • the cable is the train, the Pandora is the tunnel.

           by WhiteBat January 13, 2010 at 11:12 pm

      • Why does this have a Birds and Bees feel to it?

             by may88 January 14, 2010 at 3:57 am

  7. What type of plug does it want? One could use this to make a line out cable for a headphone amp, if the headphone jack won’t do line out.

         by cuantar January 13, 2010 at 11:22 pm

    • Yep, you’ll be able to use the line out for stuff like that.

      The plug details are floating around on the forums somewhere, I’ll try to find them when get a chance (and then add all this stuff to the wiki!). MWeston plans to sell the plugs on their own IIRC, for DIY projects.

      Some detailed photos of the AV cables for those who haven’t seen them:

      http://pandorapress.net/2009/09/11/the-av-cables-have-landed/

           by gruso January 13, 2010 at 11:30 pm

  8. I wonder if Line Out of this cable plug can be addressed/routed separately from the headphone output on the front side of Pandora. Would be nice feature for DJ mixing software – cue routed to the headphones, master mix to this Line Out.

         by cube48 January 14, 2010 at 4:37 am

  9. This looks great, particularly the serial ports. It’d be great if we could buy a breakout cable, like the TV out cable but with everything wired into common plugs. Failing that I’d be happy with a bare plug (can I get one with my order? It doesn’t look like a common type of plug.)

    It’s a shame it doesn’t include USB and power input though, otherwise it’d be perfect as a docking station!

         by Adam Nielsen January 14, 2010 at 7:24 am

  10. I was just thinking… it would be nice if we could have a part number on Digikey or Mouser (etc) for a plug that matches the one on the pandora. (same as the one on the end of the cable basically)

         by Argtrak January 14, 2010 at 8:24 am

    • Check my previous response, it has a link to a forum topic where it was made clear. The part is known, availability (other than through mweston) is unknown.

           by BackAssward January 15, 2010 at 4:40 am

  11. Ah, a pinout pinup!

         by Sofox January 14, 2010 at 9:38 am

  12. In case someone wants to know why the boards are down. I was able to catch this before it went down:

    [quote name='EvilDragon' date='14 January 2010 - 03:27 PM' timestamp='1263479240' post='799232']
    Hi,

    I just thought I’d let you know that I’m currently upgrading the server from OpenSuSE 10.3 to 11.0 (and then to the latest version).

    As upgrading from OpenSuSE 10.3 is quite a lot of manual work (SuSE didn’t offer distribution updates until 11.0), the server might have some downtimes.

    Do not worry, everything will be back to normal soon :)
    [/quote]

         by mali January 14, 2010 at 10:19 am

    • thanks for the info mali

           by r00tw00t January 14, 2010 at 10:21 am

  13. Can someone tell please whats for are those line in pins? the pandora will have audio in? or a mic?

         by dammsaint January 14, 2010 at 12:31 pm

  14. Anyone interested in pandora service repair? :D

         by kin January 14, 2010 at 4:19 pm

    • not yet, come back in about 2 months ;)

           by Lootic January 14, 2010 at 5:00 pm

  15. OMG Not just ONE but 2 serial ports!!!! OMG OMG OMG. I have GOT to get one now. I don’t care if they are TTL. This just made my Possible Pandora purchase into an Expensable one.

    Dammit where were you last year?!!!

         by bobdole369 January 26, 2010 at 3:14 pm

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