Mod To Make Pandora Bigger

[dobsonator]

well i was thinking that someone could redesign the pandora when they get it with a biggeer screen and just enlarge the whole thing including the battery, say twice the size something like what ben heck did with the ps3, made his own case n put a pc screen in there.

 

[Pleng]

Um

There are ARM basted netbooks/laptops around the corner. Making the Pandora bigger would destroy pretty much everything cool about it!

 

[gruso]

I just bought something that fits the bill.

(Not my pic. It's much smaller than it looks when you see it IRL. And very, very cute.)

 

[TrashyMG]

18.7lbs of 386 computing right there.. Nothing like a laptop having a full sized 16bit ISA slot and a half sized 8-bit slot.. I got one Running Windows 95 also fit an Ethernet and a Sound Blaster 2.0 in it..

Now that's "portable" computing right there.
http://www.sinasohn.com/cgi-bin/clascomp/bldhtm.pl?computer=t52001

 

[dobsonator]

I just bought something that fits the bill.

(Not my pic. It's much smaller than it looks when you see it IRL. And very, very cute.)

oh my good god that is awsome running wid98 if i knew they were out when they were i wud have got one that is kool. especially for the time im thinking it came out

 

[dobsonator]

well i was thinking that making it slightly larger wud give it a bit more bootspace for mods such as built in 1.8" hdd and 3G and extra USBs. higher WATTage speakers with a seperate AMP to run them. and a larger screen may do some good as it could have a higher resolution. say using the same screen from an asus EEE with the little 7" screen may be kool

 

[Asiyura]

if it wasn't supposed to fit my pocket, i'd rather buy a netbook (as a matter of fact, i did)
i bought pandora, but i still hope for a slimmer version in the future

Pandora SP or Pandora slim & lite?
I don't think they'll make one... the majority of the space is taken by the battery and omap needs a bit of space to breeze.
But who really knows?

 

[mcobit]

well i was thinking that making it slightly larger wud give it a bit more bootspace for mods such as built in 1.8" hdd and 3G and extra USBs. higher WATTage speakers with a seperate AMP to run them. and a larger screen may do some good as it could have a higher resolution. say using the same screen from an asus EEE with the little 7" screen may be kool

You would have to alter some things to the board as well, like the lcd controller to fit the new screen.

 

[Rockthesmurf]

I was thinking of making it larger, maybe PC size, and improving the hardware, so it could emulate PC, and adding expansion slots so it can take PC peripherals, and probably making it look aesthetically more like a PC, but then I remembered I have a PC, so decided not to.

Steve

 

[Vlynndar]

higher resolution. say using the same screen from an asus EEE with the little 7" screen may be kool

...The Pandora screen resolution is 800x480. The 7" eee pc screen resolution is 800x480.

 

[Butterman]

I just bought something that fits the bill.

(Not my pic. It's much smaller than it looks when you see it IRL. And very, very cute.)

Now with 20 minutes battery life!

 

[Dimacus]

^ Acually my runs for about 55-60 minutes (the larger battery tough)
Also, DSL is awesome on it.

 

[Pleng]

I just bought something that fits the bill.

(Not my pic. It's much smaller than it looks when you see it IRL. And very, very cute.)

I saw one of those in a market in Thailand. I asked how much it cost, and they said it wasn't for sale, just for display

 

[rabidpoobear]

I just bought something that fits the bill.

(Not my pic. It's much smaller than it looks when you see it IRL. And very, very cute.)

Dang, I had one of these floppy drives, got it free at a garage sale. Couldn't figure out what the heck the connector went to so I just donated it to GoodWill, but we all know they just throw away electronics they don't think they can sell. Wish I'd have known, would've mailed it to one of you guys

 

[droneb]

XD, it reminds me of my not so old Dell 600m, modded it so i could use CD bay as a cooling venting port.

so sad that it died after a fall from my table (the whole table broke after a holywood like chain effect caused by a falling mug)

 

[mduffor]

well i was thinking that someone could redesign the pandora when they get it with a biggeer screen and just enlarge the whole thing including the battery, say twice the size something like what ben heck did with the ps3, made his own case n put a pc screen in there.

If you doubled the size, it wouldn't fit very well in your hands and wouldn't be very portable. If you don't care if it is a handheld device and are looking for something more like Ben's 16 lbs PS3 laptop (does it run on battery?), then you could probably build a case that the Pandora fits in, drive the monitor with the TVOut function, hook a built-in USB keyboard and an external (wireless?) gamepad into Pandora's USB slot, and build the AC adapter into the case as well.

Otherwise if you are just looking for a Linux box with a bigger screen that requires an external gamepad, get one of the upcoming ARM based Linux netbooks and run the Pandora games from it (likely to work... no?).

Cheers,
Michael

 

[BaDToaD]

Surely it would be better to mod a Beagle board into a bigger case rather than a Pandora?

 

[cbox]

here's what my palmtop looks like:

it also has a parallel floppy drive attachment. It came with win95 but I upgrade to win98 for the usb goodness and can hook up a usb wireless G dongle to it. Kinda slow surfing websites though with its 192 megs of ram (Pentium 166). I think the latest IE I could install was 6.x something, probably should go back and see if it will take Firefox, haven't used it in a couple years.

 

[gruso]

Dang, I had one of these floppy drives, got it free at a garage sale. Couldn't figure out what the heck the connector went to so I just donated it to GoodWill, but we all know they just throw away electronics they don't think they can sell. Wish I'd have known, would've mailed it to one of you guys

CURSES! My Libretto only arrived yesterday. What the seller didn't tell me was that it requires a BIOS refresh (these things have weird BIOS arrangements) and it won't run until that's done. And a PCMCIA floppy drive is is the only way to do it. And it didn't come with one. <_< So I just bought one.

 

[atomicthumbs]