Posts Tagged ‘GC’
December 29, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
…aaand we are back. Sorry for the prolonged downtime, seems like I jinxed it in my last update (and everyone was busy with Christmas to fix it).
A lot of stuff has happened in the last week and as I am in a rush to get some things done before the New Year, I won’t summarize it here, but redirect you to the forum (which we always just copied anyway…).
Let’s just say the prototype run in Germany appears to be complete success, even after some initial problems and hick-ups.
Following are two news posts by EvilDragon on the official boards, as well as a video giving you insight into the production facility.
Finally, rom everyone here at PandoraPress, we wish you a good celebration of the passing year and an even better start into the new one. See you guys in 2012!
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Posted in Blog, Official, Pandora, Software | Tagged Boards, GC, hotfix, no copy-pasta this time, production, prototypes, psx, VVVVVV | 7 Comments »
December 16, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
First of all, sorry about the recent downtimes, the WordPress set-up was getting old and unstable and needed a reset every now in a while. Admin atomicthumbs now upgraded to a new version (thanks!), so those problems are hopefully a thing of the past.
In the meantime we missed two blog posts by EvilDragon, which I will try to summarize in the following. You can find the full quotes after the break.
The preparation for the prototype run are full steam ahead, the parts being held back at CC’s finally passed customs and are on their way to a new destination: GC. Other parts needed for the mass production run are on their way, too and should arrive over Christmas and New Year. With them there should be enough for the first run of 1000 Pandoras.
He also got a sample of the new version of the case, which should prevent the cracks users have been reporting – another 4000 will be ordered of those, they will be used when he runs out of the remaining ones (Source).
Concerning TV-out cables he is still waiting for a quotation and a sample before New Year, so fingers crossed on that.
Sadly this was followed by some bad news, some less, but still bad news and some very bad news.
First of all the RAM did not arrive as ordered, so ED had to get a quick replacement, which will arrive Friday or Monday pushing the prototype run back to that date.
Loading the machines with the parts (minus RAM) was still done and during that GC noticed that the Pick and Place files (data telling the machine which parts got on on which position) were incompatible, MWeston is contacted to make some slight (and easy) changes to them.
This quick line of communication is also a nice change as EvilDragon is now in direct contact with all necessary people and information has not travel over multiple stations (like it did before).
Last there is the mentioned very bad news, which is not production related:
A member of the community, jonai, has been murdered a few weeks ago. He was active on the German and gp32x.com boards as well as in ICQ contact with EvilDragon.
His death was cruel and inhuman and sadly the police has no clue so far, in case you knew him closely and might have important information contact EvilDragon who is in contact with the police about this.
My sincere condolences to the family and friends of the victim. Let’s think about him for a minute.
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Posted in Official, Pandora | Tagged CC, GC, jonai, parts, production, prototype | 10 Comments »
December 2, 2011
Posted by: Kloplop321
Update 2:
The packages have finally been picked up in Texas and according to FedEx tracking, they should arrive tomorrow in Germany.
I guess it will be Friday or Monday (never trusted FedEx estimations 
), but that means we only got a slight delay with the prototype run and we’re still planning the full production to happen in January 
Source
Update:
EvilDragon posted an update on the situation with CircuitCo.
It seems like all documents had been prepared actually, but there was confusion about how to handle them (or what they are for) on CC’s side.
If this does not work out, ED will simply contact EBV/AVNet to pick up the parts and export them.
Here is the full post
Original post:
This time, we might have reason to celebrate in under Two Months!
A prototype run has been scheduled to happen next week on Thursday or Friday (However, drama changes that).
Mass production at Global Components is scheduled at January 16th in Germany. There should not be any changes to this date, unless there are issues!
Additionally, there’s some progress on TV Cables, currently EvilDragon is waiting for quotes to come back.
Many parts (cases, batteries, LCDs, etc.) are still with Craig, and need to be transported to Germany.
See the full text after the jump!
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Posted in Hardware, Pandora | Tagged cables, CC, cuircuitco, drama, fedex, GC, global components, parts, prototype, quotations, tv cables, tv out, two months :p | 15 Comments »
November 22, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
Update:
If you are like me wondering what out-of-production parts ED was talking about, here is the answer:
Some Diodes (no big deal) and only one important part: The Memory.
But Micron (the manufacturer of the memory we used) has replacements for those as well, so nothing serious, nope.
Source
Original post:
In short: Production in Germany is still in schedule with the different parts needed being shiped from all over the world (Parts from CircuitCo are being handled as we speak and proper replacements for parts already out of production have already been ordered).
The TV-Out cables, which ED promised to order after production at GC is fully set-up, are the new troublemaker, though.
For some reason the company making those is now refusing to take the order, which means that the already produced tools have to be shipped to another manufacturer, which obviously has to be found first. As the cables are not that much more expensive to produce over here in Germany, ED is looking into that possibility as well.
Some random news bits: Socket-able nubs are currently off the table as the new and improved nubs seem to perform nicely so far.
If your Pandora is currently in RMA you should expect a bit of wait, a user recently reported getting his Pandora back after about one month. ED currently fixes about 8 Pandoras a week in his spare time (between his regular job, organizing the production, sending out contracts and actually getting some sleep).
Here is the full quote with all the gory bits:
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Posted in Official, Pandora | Tagged cable, GC, parts, production, tv out | 23 Comments »
October 26, 2011
Posted by: Kloplop321
While EvilDragon is getting about 4 hours of sleep a night, he’s working hard to ensure the success of the batch which will be produced in Germany.
Note: CC is CircuitCo, the current manufacturer that has consistently let us down. GC is Global Components, which has many international sites is the new manufacturer ED will work with.
In summary, TV out cables might become a reality soon, investment contracts are happily building up, EPV(the parts dealers) will be assisting with customs for the transition between CC and GC. EvilDragon plans to do some promotion to sell the new units around November/December. However, the new units realistically are not expected to ship in time for the Christmas holidays.
The full text, links and all, is after the jump.
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Posted in Hardware, Official, Pandora, Uncategorized | Tagged cables, CC, customs, EBV, GC, germany, global components, investors, plans, promotion, side story, tv, tv out | 13 Comments »
October 20, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
EvilDragon announces enough investments have been gathered to start the production in Germany – you can still invest if you want to, this would decease production costs further. The first big run of boards is still anticipated for January 2012.
ED will also meet with a parts distributor to discuss how to move the remaining batch2 parts from CircuitCo (Texas) to Germany.
Last but not least a reminder that him, Craig and a few guys from the community will be attending Replay Expo in Blackpool (GB), tickets are still available -check this thread for more details on who is coming and a planned meet-up.
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Posted in Official, Pandora | Tagged GC, global components, investments, production, replay expo | 24 Comments »
October 9, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
Sorry this blog has been vacant for the last week.
While I was away and did not post anything, the OpenPandora team has been quite the opposite with EvilDragon posting 4 news posts.
Meanwhile skeezix became father of twins (a boy and a girl) – congratulations in behalf of the PandoraPress team!
Following is a summary of the news:
- The plan a bit more detailed (2011-09-27)
- Investments, Production start, preoderings and a wish (2011-10-02)
- Preorders have started! (2011-10-04)
- A plan taking form (2011-10-05)
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Posted in Official, Pandora | Tagged business, CC, CircuitCo, Community, components, GC, global, investment, investor, plan, production | 22 Comments »
September 25, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
EvilDragon finished translating the business plan to English and sent it out to possible future investors.
Well, just some quick news to tell you that I finished the business plan this weekend and sent it out to interested investors.
Over 40 community members have sent me mails that they are interested in investing – guys, you rock!
I also sent a copy to notch – he was one of the first people to order a Pandora (and waited until he got it), so he might be a potential candidate as well.
I will let you know more details and informations about it soon, as well as the preordering that should start soon.
Right now, I’m just a bit tired and need to get up early tomorrow.
But I will keep you informed!
Source
If you are honestly interested in investing you can contact him to obtain a copy.
He also reveals some details about the process of investing and what figures and data the plan contains (also some information regarding the dev-fund and TV-out cables):
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Posted in Official, Pandora | Tagged business plan, CC, GC, investors | 2 Comments »
September 1, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
EvilDragon writes an elaborate follow up post to his last one, this time including information about the final quotation from Global Components (the factory in Germany which might be producing the boards in the future), a call for investors and information about what is planned to do in the future regarding them, another round of pre-orders and CircuitCo.
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Posted in Blog, Official, Pandora | Tagged Boards, circuit co, GC, germany, global components, investors, notch, production | 26 Comments »
July 28, 2011
Posted by: foxblock
…not for the rebels though, but for batch 2 of the Pandora.
Yesterday EvilDragon visited a replacement company for CircuitCo, called Global Components located in Oberhaching (Germany).
They had a meeting talking about the board (ED brought a sample), the production and also showed him around.
All in all the company made a good impression, but nothing is settled at this point as OpenPandora has to wait a few weeks for a detailed quotation and then make a proper business plan.
Parts have to be paid upfront, so this will be another issue, but EvilDragon tells us they are also working on some additional solutions to that problem which might be revealed soon.
Read the full quote:
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Posted in Official, Pandora | Tagged batch 2, Boards, circuit co, company, GC, global components, Official, production | 20 Comments »
