Posts Tagged ‘moulds’
February 7, 2010
Posted by: gruso
[EDITORIAL]
It’s been a fun weekend, hasn’t it? Ok, perhaps showing us case samples on a Friday, giving us a whole weekend to wait for answers from the factory, didn’t work out all that well. But information has surfaced in the last two days that gives us cause not to freak out. To fully understand what happened here, you need to fully understand injection moulding – which most of us don’t. That means it’s time for a ludicrous cake analogy. The chef has been asked to do some quick tasters. He knows the recipe, and he’s got a totally sweet oven. But in his rush to please us, the cupcakes came out a little sloppy. And although we asked for icing, he didn’t want to mix up a metric ton of the stuff for a handful of cakes.
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January 5, 2010
Posted by: gruso
Tired of being a posterboy for ambiguity, Craig has decided to take a more direct approach to passing on information: sharing the case factory’s emails with us. A little unconventional, but a well received move so far in the forums. We just hope the factory (and “Mr.Michael”) don’t mind.
Let’s try a new way of showing you the situation, we will just copy and paste the emails from the factory:
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December 23, 2009
Posted by: gruso
The newly tweaked case parts we’ve so keenly waited for have been photographed at last (at the factory, it would appear). At a glance they don’t look a whole lot different to the last lot, but look closely and you’ll spot the wider LCD slot, and more finesse overall. The next step for these is a journey to Canada, and the unforgiving judgement of Michael Weston – who is probably as eager to say Go as we are to hear it.
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December 21, 2009
Posted by: gruso
You’ve probably accepted by now (graciously, no doubt) that there’s no point setting up camp under the mailbox before Christmas. Valuable information when you’re under four feet of snow. Sadly for team Pandora there is no such respite, with two notable milestones plonked right in the middle of the silly season. The second lot of revised cases (featuring tweaked LCD ribbon slots and shoulder buttons) is set to ship on the 23rd, while the final CE test has been booked in by ED for the 28th. Sorry OP Ltd, there’s work to be done. Step away from the eggnog. (Thanks to tipsters Bosbeetle and mali.)
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December 16, 2009
Posted by: gruso
Toned shoulders, bigger slots, shaved something-or-others. These are the case revisions we wait for; this weekend is the time frame we hope for.
The cases will probably arrive with Michael at the weekend if we are lucky. They should be the final ones.
So it looks like units won’t ship to customers in large numbers until (probably) after Christmas.
I’m sure Michael will make up more units, but it’s going to be small numbers before Christmas, probably for devs.
When you get your Pandora and see just how perfected it is you will understand the delays. (craigix)
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December 3, 2009
Posted by: gruso
This isn’t news yet, but we’re all starving for status updates so it’s worth sharing what we have. The current information from China (mined from the German boards by Mali) is that they’ve declared the moulds complete, and are shipping / have shipped the remaining test pieces out – complete with production matte finish. The final say lies with Mr Weston of course, who eagerly awaits their arrival. Craig expanded on this via some forum Q&A (questions are from various GP32Xers and may be paraphrased, but you’ll hardly notice).
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November 29, 2009
Posted by: gruso
First, an apology from PandoraPress for copy/pasting this tale of shrinkage so long after the fact (“I was in the pool!”). Second, an apology from ED for excitedly jumping the gun last week upon seeing the new case parts. And who could blame him?
Your all waiting for more shiny case pictures, right? Well… we all are.
However, I did make a fault with my last blog post – as the pictures had been released, I assumed the shipment to Michael was on the way. It isn’t yet – sorry about that, I was so excited about that myself, I really thought it was on the way.
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November 25, 2009
Posted by: atomicthumbs
Craig has posted new photos of the parts from the Pandora test injection. Keep in mind that these are test parts, and so aren’t as shiny as the final parts. Here you see the top of the Pandora’s case, with holes for everything. Read more for more photos.
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Posted in Hardware, Official, Pandora | Tagged Case, case mould, craigix, Hardware, mass production, moulds, production | Comments Off
November 24, 2009
Posted by: gruso
Moulds… finished? No way!
What? Another blog post? And still no pictures of the finished case?
Well… yes. but I thought you might be interested in the (good this time!) news we have.
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November 18, 2009
Posted by: gruso
ED has followed up today’s tantalising Texan photos with an official blog post, and some pictures of his own.
We’ve got some good news! 103 out of the 105 boards did pass the test, this is slightly more than 98% success rate!
TI set up a unique testing environment, especially for the Pandora boards. With a special firmware, every hardware piece of the Pandora can be checked with as little human interaction as possible.
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