Posts Tagged ‘105’

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Photo: First boards attend graduation ceremony

November 17, 2009
Posted by: gruso

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Pictured here are the remainder of the first 105, following the successful completion of stress testing. MWeston:

103 out of 105 passed. The other two may come up after another reflow but sometimes they are just dead and get tossed aside. This whole time has been spent working on the ones that have been functional and building the test jig with pins that probe the PCB. We’ve also been focusing efforts on adding more features to the software so that an automated application can be run on top of the OS to check all of the hardware functionality with as little human interaction as possible.

A result so good, that:

It’s very likely we are just doing them all next. The smaller runs *might* not be needed now. (craigix)

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Two of the first 105 snapped

September 11, 2009
Posted by: gruso

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Snapped with a camera, of course. MWeston has taken possession of some samples from the elusive “first 105″, having passed their tests at the TI factory with honours. He seems rather happy with them, too.

I finally got some production samples that passed testing. These are the best looking boards of all the revisions ever made. The guy in charge of assembly for the Pandora project does such an amazing job!

Click to enlarge, and take in the beauty of an actual, final Pandora board. We’re also told that the TV cables are in transit, so we should be seeing some pics of those… soon.

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