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Thank you!! I hated having my Pandora with cracked screen these last few weeks. The black blob keeps growing progressively making Pandora more unusable. And I have a trip coming up so I bought a 1GHz Pandora again. Maybe a bit of a waste of money, but I'm not so sure about replacing the LCD...

I carry my Pandora. ;) With some small modifications to the op_storage.sh script is possible to take a disc image and make accesible to via mini-USB cable to a PC (the USB storage gadget driver has that ability). Meaning a PC can boot by using Pandora as a USB HDD. :cool: Unluckily the USB...

Haha, the days way back when using a USB stick required installing a driver for it. I actually had to carry a floppy with the drivers for it.

I got extremely lucky that I had a multi-card reader which also uses mini-usb cable. It was the only mini-usb cable I had access to when I got the Pandora.

This is 100% true because there's no daemon running which scans for AppImages and adds them to menu and such. One such daemon could perhaps be made (but why? there's already one for DBP ;)). AppImages don't need to be extracted. You can just download, chmod u+x appimage, ./appimage and the...

I meant that in the context of the "shell scripts+appended data VS appimage" discussion.

Both can be directly executed. But AppImage can also be directly mounted. So at least that's one difference. ;) One other thing AppImage has in it's favor is the tools provided to facilitate the creation of AppImages. The features that the daemon provides are exactly why it is a better match...

I absolutely love using Pandora for any random purpose I can come up with. One a recent example: When it rains in my house it can get so loud that it's impossible to hear the TV even with volume at max. My brother and I were thinking that it would be nice to somehow connect bluetooth headphones...

Appimage has a bit more clever implementation: So it's an executable binary rather than a script. But for the case of Pandora/Pyra I think the PND/DBP package format offers goodies which AppImage doesn't provide (menu integration, auto-scanning, app data dir, etc).

Hmm, interesting. Maybe things could be done backwards: Design a main board on for the Tegra TX1 module. Probably some things would need to be given up (SD cards, ports, 3G module, etc), since there's just not enough space on Pyra. Hopefully nVidia makes even smaller Tegra modules in the future.

Suppose some trusted company does develop a Pyra CPU board based on nVidia chip and sells it to ED. What about the software? I mean besides the hardware, Golden Delicious is also making a working kernel, including support for Pyra specific things like the rotator chip. Would it be possible to...

https://light.co/camera http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/07/technology/light-l16-camera/index.html

Assuming a community mod: Probably some kind of mod to the LCB PCB to integrate camera(s) together with a smaller LCD to allow space for such camera(s). Issue is that might also imply loosing the rotator chip since it might not be available in low quantities, or might make the PCB harder to...

Neat, didn't know that existed. But TinyGLES seems to be more akin to Mesa 3D, in that simulates OpenGLES in software. My suggestion/joke was to do something like that, but using the 2D accelerator for the specific case of 2D rendered via OpenGL. Which is kinda silly because something like...

"regularly updates its software" "always-evolving security features that update automatically" So basically you give Google full control to do as they please. If we consider Google as an untrusted party, then the device itself is a huge backdoor into your home network.

We need a glshim like wrapper lib which simulates 2D OpenGL ops using the 2D accelerator instead of 3D driver (or mesa replacement). :D /joking :p

I think the costs of producing cases come from the costs of running the production machines and the man power to setup/run the production. The costs of the raw materials is probably minimal by comparison. Producing 2 colors always costs more than producing 1 color, due to having to stop the...

From previous news posts:

If the PCB remains square, then any shape changes mean a bigger overall size. The current "brick" hugs the dimensions of the PCB closely. Changing the shape of the PCB would result in higher costs: http://circuitpeople.com/Blog/PanelsInPcbManufacturing.aspx

If you take a closer look at GPD board/internal design it's quite noticeable some of the compromises made in order to make the device thinner. The "floating" sticks which connect to board with ribbon cables, the non-repleaceable battery, the oddly shaped PCB, all that just to make the device...