Posts Tagged ‘production’
August 24, 2010
Posted by: gruso
EvilDragon is pumping out the new material today, with two new videos and a roundup of the nub situation. The gist of the blog post is that we may be about to see the last of the nub holdups, and a more consistent flow of completed boards out of Texas. Amen to that.
Well, quite a few things have happened, so here is another update for you.
1. All about the nubs
In case you didn’t know yet: Quite a few nubs had problems right from the beginning (a failure rate of 20 – 25% is just inacceptable!) and even some of the working ones have failed a while later (though not too many, thankfully).
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Posted in Official, Software | Tagged 3g, bluetooth, Boards, evildragon, nubs, production, retrode, tv out, usb | 20 Comments »
August 23, 2010
Posted by: gruso
The last mention of production status was back on the 14th, when EvilDragon told us there were 200 more boards on the way to the UK. Those boards are now making their way into cases, and out to customers. This will bring the total number of Pandoras in the wild to approximately 900. As for the next lot of boards:
Also we’re told to expect 500(!) boards in the next batch, so, wow, that will be a lot of work. Not sure we can manage 500 in a week but we shall see.
(craigix)
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ps. We’re trying something different on the old unofficial roadmap. No more tables or infographics, no more predictions, just a log of notable events. It’s not even a roadmap any more, but we’ll still call it that. Here.
Posted in Hardware, Official | Tagged Boards, cases, craigix, production, Shipping | 24 Comments »
August 14, 2010
Posted by: BackAssward
EvilDragon seems to be sleepless. He looks to be over-joyed with the support the team has received, and seems a bit saddened by some of the negativity.
We sometimes forget the magnitude of what each and every member of the Pandora team has done; It can be easy to be jaded, or lose sight of the point.
In the end: The Pandora is a device born from a community, made by people just like you or I, and it is gorgeous… have some faith, there is a lot of good going on.
As usual, I’ll let EvilDragon do the rest of the talking:
A big Thank You!
What? No news? Dammit!
Well, the boards (200 AFAIK) are on the way to UK due to arrive next week and will be built then, no more news in that area.
BUT I wanted to make a big thank you post!
Not another of those boring “thank you for waiting”-posts (we are thankful, REALLY thankful, but I think I thanked you for that for quite a few times already… and I think you know we are thankful 
)
No, I wanted to personally say thankful for all the encouraging eMails, messages and words I (and the whole team) got from you during the last few days.
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Posted in Blog, Community Links, Pandora, Releases | Tagged evildragon, production | 12 Comments »
August 11, 2010
Posted by: BackAssward
Sometimes EvilDragon says a bit, and other times he says a lot. This is one of those times where he must have spent his night up, making a post.
Let’s see… The current nubs are working great, the latest hotfix is looking pretty good. The team is very happy with the last hundred boards, and there and many more on the way. What more is there to say?
As usual, I’ll let EvilDragon do the talking:
Moving forward!
Hardware Production
We were really pleased with the last 100 boards! Only a few failed for different reasons, but the nubs were working fine! So it seems the mechanical testing is a fine solution until the next batch of nubs will be produced with added accuracy.
170 more boards are already on the way to UK, so expect more units to be delivered soon.
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Posted in Blog, Hardware, Official, Pandora, Software | Tagged evildragon, Hardware, production | 74 Comments »
August 10, 2010
Posted by: gruso
A little update on production progress, which has been tiptoeing along since 100 more boards arrived last week. Quality checks on the nubs are still a significant slowdown, although it looks like things could be possibly thinking about looking up soon.
The last 25 of the 100 will ship today and tomorrow. It does look like this nub issue is solved for 99% of the units so we can get back on track. Over 700 Pandoras have now been shipped.
(craigix, yesterday)
I know things are going slow but 170 more boards are arriving soon and things will start to really speed up and those units should be very good quality due to this lengthy test process.
(craigix)
And on the cases:
we decided to order 7000 last month. 1500 are coming by UPS the rest by boat (4-5 weeks).
The 1500 are due here next week sometime (well, due in to customs!).
(craigix)
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Posted in Hardware | Tagged assembly, cases, craigix, nubs, production | 27 Comments »
July 30, 2010
Posted by: gruso
It was hoped that 200 more boards would arrive in the UK this week, but there is nought to report. The problem seems to be between the nub factory tightening up their quality control, and the board factory getting in step with them. Throw in some dud UPS promises and pinch of misc, and you’ve got yourself a regular old Friday in Pandoria. EvilDragon elaborates somewhat in the forum posts linked below.
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Posted in Hardware | Tagged Boards, nubs, production, ups | 39 Comments »
July 8, 2010
Posted by: foxblock
ED has some more info about the continuing production of the first batch of Pandoras:
4000 more cases are produced and currently being painted (hopefully, without the buttons 
)
1000 or 1500 (we still are thinking about the amount we need) will go via UPS and the rest via sea (it’s cheaper. Takes about 20 – 25 days, but it will take a while until we used up the 1500 cases anyways).
As said, next week, we’ll get about 400 boards that will go into the cases we still have.
I get 3200 LCD cables to solder next week (yay!)
At the moment, a lot of preparation is going on – so that we basically only need to stick the boards in once they arrive.
The last 2500 units will be built way faster than the ones before, as we can prepare everything.
And yes, the additional 1000 cases will also be used to sell you modders out there for spare 
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Update:
Caution: These are guesses, don’t be dissapointed when the future happens to be different!
ED on the question “how many Pandoras have been shipped?”
Probably about 650 [have been shipped]. 400 boards coming next week.
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Craig on shipping:
They [the Pandoras] will start shipping again next week and we hope the shipping will then continue in a smooth way until the remaining ones are all done. Things will speed up in a major way once we past number 1000.
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Posted in Pandora | Tagged cases, ED, first batch, production | 62 Comments »
July 1, 2010
Posted by: gruso
A word of advice to those still waiting for that magic delivery email: settle in with a hot mug of something, there are a few months left on this ride. Craig estimates that it will take until the beginning of October to get 4,000 out the door, at which point he hopes production will roll straight into batch 2 without hiatus. Looking further into the future, there is talk of bringing case production to the UK as well – but that’s a good 12,000 Pandoras away, and a topic for another day. In the meantime, the best we can do is wish the UK assembly line a speedy recovery, and try to stave off the cabin fever.
Full discussion in this thread.
Posted in Hardware | Tagged 2nd batch, assembly, delivery, production | 56 Comments »
June 30, 2010
Posted by: gruso
It’s a quiet week on the assembly front, with Craig now waiting for another lot of boards to arrive from Texas. EvilDragon answers some forum queries below.
Just a short summary so far:
About 650 – 700 should’ve been shipped (alltogether) – or will be shipped these days (as I’m shipping some more today).
There were a couple of things that slowed things down in the beginning:
* Lots of failed LCD Cables in the beginning after we assembled the lid. As we had all 4000 cables here, it didn’t prevent us to build the units… but it took a lot more time. As we now know what the problem was, this will be no slowdown anymore (last 200 lids we built only had one failed LCD cable )
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Posted in Hardware | Tagged assembly, delivery, production | 34 Comments »
June 21, 2010
Posted by: gruso
“Second verse, longer than the first.”
Hi folks!
As promised, here is our current report about things that happened and things that will happen.
First, let’s start with the most important information for most of you:
How is Mass Production going?
Well, I’m honest here: Could be better – but could’ve been A LOT worse.
All in all, we’re pretty content. And a bit proud it all worked out and there are now real units out there! We can either speed up production but have a bad quality – or work a but slower and make sure the units we deliver are properly working (and that’s the path we chose).
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Posted in Hardware, Official, Software | Tagged evildragon, firmware, OS, production | 38 Comments »