Release PCB See

[cosam]

Does anyone know if this board has been populated and tested yet?

MWeston has posted links to a couple of pictures of the developers' breakout board. The first one shows a fully populated Mk2 PCB.

 

[kattle87]

wait... Is that thing after the rainbow ribbon (also) a VGA adaptor without complicated circuits so we can get full VGA instead of spending lots of money on stupid S-Video-to-VGA adapters that would work poorly???

(Finger crossed...)

 

[darkblu]

i think i'm in love with an EXT connector.

 

[mindlord]

I hate to burst the VGA love-bubble. That connector, as far as I can tell, looks like a standard Serial port with a Serial to USB adapter plugged into it.

 

[j.pickens]

Yeah, look at the second photo, same i/o layout as the shown RS-232 connector.
9 pin RS-232, sorry.
My heart skipped a beat when I first saw the photo too.

 

[darkblu]

/heart-broken

 

[benjiro]

/heart-broken

Your not the only one. Almost hoped that they where able to redirect the internal video to the breakout board.

 

[Hotcooler]

But now it's fully clear. The bottom ? is power switch. And 3 pad ? is for battery.

 

[kattle87]

I see... Well, I must admit I first thought about VGA mainly because I have almost forgot about serial connectors (let's say... I haven't been using serial ports for about 4 years or more!)

Really heart broken But I can handle this: I will just get one of my friends to soldering the right pins on the PCB on his Pandora, then I'll do the same if I am sure it won't damage anything on my own Pandora