“So, green lighted.”
February 8, 2010
Posted by: gruso
We spoke to the factory over night, everything is cool. Those errors were because the machine was not warmed up/tweaked/cooled. They would never mass produce something with such errors.
They just assumed we would know that.
So, green lighted.
(craigix)
Update: EvilDragon elaborates on the green light and reflects on one of the most tumultuous weekends the project has seen, in a new post on the official blog. Congratulations, team Pandora.
atomicthumbs
BackAssward
Butterman
gruso
tom
What's this?
HOLY GODDAMN YES…..1!?!!111!!!!!
+1
Rivetting Tale, Chap
+1000
+9001
+ 1000000
+infinity
You lose sucka.
FUCK!
+FUCK!
+ infinity and Beyond!!!
You lose sucka
PS: So, any ETA???
End of March?
Bought in okt. 2008 LOLZ
+infinity, divided by zero :O
Just hope
℘aℵⅆ∞ℜa
supports UTF8
whats all this random ness about whats OKT and UTA?? LOL anys i lost so many times ++FUCK!
Comment pyramids are awesome!
+ 4000
Now everyone stay calm… Until someone has gotten their Pandora. Everything can wrong. But a small (yeay!) is okay
yeay!
Yeay !
YEAY HOO!!!!!! sorry couldn’t contain myself.
I’m so exited that the very last obstacle has been resolved and that I’ll have my Pandora in just a few days.
EvilDragon is a pretty cool guy. Everything can wrong but eh doesn’t afraid of anything
oh ok yesyesyes everything is cool then
Wootness! I better have my pandora within two weeks(TM)!
wwwopoopppowopopow yeah!!
The artwork rocks! This is great news, but I’m trying to stay level headed, as we all know what can go wrong here, but good news none the less!
HORRAYYYY
F.A.B. Mr Tracy!!!
I’ve been looking at a Nokia N900 for the last hour as I’ve been going so mad with all the Pandy problems and wanted something to tide me over. Now I think I’ll stick with the Crackberry, and wait it out, I’ve waited this long! woop woop
Wow, I actually burst out a YES when I saw this.
This must have been a great relief for the OP team, especially after this weekend.
Agreed
I concur with your agreement.
Wait, it is not April yet…
April costs me £300 as I’d loose the bet with my wife that I’d have the Pandora within a year.
She just wanted you to lose so she could buy her own Pandora later.
F.A f&^$%#g B!!!
The now armless guy.. got nudged in the right way.. as ordered.. *Evil*
What’s with the clips in the hinge area? Is the problem solved? Or do we trust the company in fixing that last problem?
PS: Yeeeepeeeeee! Pandora baby!
great stuff. Might not have it by the 27th when I go away but major w00tage none the less
Love the picture because yesterday, I saw “Demented are go”
I bet all you Soothsayers of doom feel silly right now.
Mark my words! The fun isn’t over yet.
If this project was the 400 Metre Hurdles then we’re in the home straight with only a few hurdles to go. Don’t dip for the line just yet.
Doom! But there’s optimism in my pessimistic realism.
*marks his words*
Oh ye of little faith… there is still plenty of time for major failure to occur
That said, it is good to hear something good from the Pandora crew… assuming of course this isn’t another example of being outright lied to by the Chinese factory (after all, they’ve done it before).
HURRAH !!! I was almost falling from my chair…
F**k Yeah!
Finally I see the light at the end of the tunnel; and it’s green…
That would mean the Train is behind you.
Holy $hit! I’ve never thought of that
It would be nice to have it soon.
I think this whole experience has tried everyone’s patience.
I’m trying to not get excited about them coming soon incase something else goes wrong.
But here’s hoping everything is smooth from now on.
Road Map update Gruso?
Done.
Awsome, road map makes me happy. Not much to go!
looks great, but Updated on Modnay 9th February?
So what about the silk-screening? Do they not need to approve a ‘proof’ of that before moving ahead?
(Personally, I’d prefer mine without silk-screening after seeing the samples.)
You can wash it off, very carefully.
Steel wool? Sandblast it?
Just you hope that they use the correct file this time.
It will be in Chinese ore Chinese English
The cases might come without silk screening.
But chances are after the first couple hundred the production will get very clean including the silk screen.
Then how will I know where to insert the SDHC cards?
Just wave them around in the general vicinity, they’ll suck in somewhere.
Whoo hoo!
I need new trousers.
shush, old man, there are kids here
I’m sure all Butterman just meant that he needs new trousers with larger pockets that will fit the Pandora.
I know what he meant. It just happened to me too.
It’s happening! It’s really happening!
We could still get our Pandoras before March!!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Less of the YEAH please young man!
oh sorry FUCK yeah!!
PANDORA are GO
PANDORA is GO, surely!
Anything can happen in the next 2 months!
Coo. Maybe just in time for my birthday at the end of the month.
Great news guys.
you too.
I’m hoping it arrives around mine 23rd
but really I’m not expecting it until march/april time
Awesome picture, as per usual. ^^
PANDORA ARE GO!!
WE ARE VICTORY!!
It had me grinning like an idiot on the bus this morning. Well done!
A winner is us!
let’s DO this thing
lets make this shit work
where doing it man
where MAKING THIS HAPEN
China is.
Where Wolves? There Wolves!
Damn it, and I still have no reply to my preoder sent to shop@gp2x.de
But all you people who trusted in advance, I am very happy for you!
try openpandorasales@gmail.com
Thanks, I will!
Gosh you can be helpful at times. I only wish I could.
:>
I think you killed the forum.
LOL!! funny stuff, IM HAPPY FOR ALL OF US!!!!!!!!
Activate interlock! Dynotherms connected! Infracells up! Mega thrusters are go! GO PANDORA FORCE!
Dun Dun Dun-Dun
Dun Dun Dun…
Dun Dun Dun-Dun
Dun Dun Dun…Dun Dun Dun
Love Voltron(s)
Excitement… rising!
oh boy, i read sad news, its not super 100% case, its 50-75% case ;____; I will wait…
Think you’re reading old news (or I am… well one of us).
I hope im the one reading old news O: ^________________________________________________________________^
Woo! and indeed Hoo!
And to think I was one Chinese New Year away from cancelling my order.
I just hope being one of the last orders, that a case with my name on it escapes China before they close the border.
same here…
WP-Supercache is Go!
cool service but it won’t accept my visa classic
I bet anyone who cancelled during the weekend feels kinda dumb right about now (not an attack, jus’ sayin)
LOL, so true! =)
Things can still go wrong.
I already see transport problem lets hope that they transport a minimum of two delivery’s.
It will be embarrassing if all Pandora’s would get damaged in transport.
But for now it look like Pandora is finally passing by being vaporware.
Now the wait is also to see it on sale and not only pre-order.If it is on sale and can be delivered within a month then i buy one.
http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=vaporware&hl=en
Sorry i meant to say.
It looks like Pandora is becoming real and no more vaporware
Fantastic!
That picture will make a great background on the Pandora.
I was just going to say the same thing. Wallpaper is GO!
I’ll see what I can do about making an 800×480 version.
Yay! I hope all goes well at this point. Crosses fingers & knocks on wood.
is there any estimation as to how many cases will actually be made before Chinese New Year?
Does that meen we wont have to wait for two months?….bummer!Just when i got used to it
Let us celebrate with the adding of chocolate to milk.
Dear god, man! Do you have any idea what the effects of that could be?
Greenlight yes, so let it commence please!
For the first time I believe that I may see mine soon.
Damn. This is the best news that I have heard yet. I just hope the production cases are as good as the Chinese say they will be.
I ordered on the first day the Pandora started the preorders over a year ago. I wonder if I will get one of them if they only get 1000 cases before the CNY.
Regardless, this case issue has been going on for way too long and I am glad that hopefully come next week, we won’t have to deal with it anymore.
“Build it and they will come” – unknown
“Don’t build it and they will go” – me
That would be from “Field of Dreams”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_Dreams
lets ALL get READY TO PLAY ZELDA OCARINA OF TIME ON THIS BABY!!!!!!! woot im so happy!
So what was the point of sending a crappy case if they knew that it wasn’t representative of the final quality, and assumed the recipients would know that as well? It’d tell nothing about the progress of the molds.
“we have plastic”
They did minor “fitting” tweaks but not “finishing” tweaks. What the case factory said they were providing, and what OP Ltd thought they were getting, were two different things. Language barrier strikes again.
ED explains here:
http://www.open-pandora.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=2&lang=en
In am away for one day and this happens
I need to leave more often!
Go away for a week and then everything will be fine
fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap …
PPPAAANNNDDDOOORRRAAA!!!!!!…….Serenity now!