God Ginrai
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I'm pretty sure that the AllWinner rep called them a distributor of the Optimus Board in that video I posted. Which means that their board is an Optimus Board.
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SoC: Back and forth!
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WizardStan
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Sorry, I'm just going on what I remember EvilDragon saying.
I never said it's absolutely no option, but right now pretty unlikely (would add more than 6 months of development time)
Exophase
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Wrong person bro.
This is a pretty crazy hypothetical, but if another party were willing to try making an adapter board to plug an A80 board to the Pandora's peripheral PCB would you be willing to share the pinout/connector data necessary to do so, and maybe the board itself later on for testing? That way this work could start happening in parallel without disrupting the ongoing development by you and gta04, and later on you could evaluate the feasibility of using an SoC board made with this instead of the TI one.
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If we're "lucky" the Keymat and LCD testing will delay Pyra production so much that we have time to make an A80 board 
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Or we could make a Special edition with 100 OMAP5 boards to finance the production of the potential final A80 board.
.Or we could make a Special edition with 100 OMAP5 boards to finance the production of the potential final A80 board.
This is a pretty crazy hypothetical, but if another party were willing to try making an adapter board to plug an A80 board to the Pandora's peripheral PCB would you be willing to share the pinout/connector data necessary to do so, and maybe the board itself later on for testing? That way this work could start happening in parallel without disrupting the ongoing development by you and gta04, and later on you could evaluate the feasibility of using an SoC board made with this instead of the TI one.
Yes, of course. We'll open everything up anyways.
In theory, one could create a processor board with just stuff for a controller on it and misuse the main PCB as iCP2
Exophase
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I guess I should clarify - would you be willing to do all that before Pyra was actually out?
ShleeDragon
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Six month is the new two months.
Black is the new white!
That sounds like a very neat idea. A combination memory card reader, game controller, USB hub, keyboard, 3G/wifi/GPS receiver and external battery pack..In theory, one could create a processor board with just stuff for a controller on it and misuse the main PCB as iCP2
SNESFAN
Retro game fanatic
+1 remove the screen, fit a cellphone holder attachment into the hinge area where the screen used to be, replace the SoC with a dummy controller boardBlack is the new white!
That sounds like a very neat idea. A combination memory card reader, game controller, USB hub, keyboard, 3G/wifi/GPS receiver and external battery pack..In theory, one could create a processor board with just stuff for a controller on it and misuse the main PCB as iCP2
BOOM,
(BT Keyboard + BT game controller + BT USB Hub + wifi NAS + hotspot + external charger)
the ultimate companion device
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Oh boy! This is gonna be good!
FaeMinx
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So... how about the design be modified so the screen is relatively easy to remove and replaced with a clamp?
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Grench
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How about just designing your clamp to fit the base unit's hinge assembly points?So... how about the design be modified so the screen is relatively easy to remove and replaced with a clamp?
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SNESFAN
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Might need to get a 3d printer now.... HmmHow about just designing your clamp to fit the base unit's hinge assembly points?So... how about the design be modified so the screen is relatively easy to remove and replaced with a clamp?
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DatNOBoi
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*insert tech jargon here*
FaeMinx
Rainbow Liberation Instigation
If the hinge is strong enough... perhaps we could just clip our phones over the screen?
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Yo! Dawg. I heard you like mobile computing devices, so I put a mobile computing device on yo mobile computing device so yo can compute while yo compute on yo commute.
levi
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ED's stated he's designed the lid so that you can access the LCD more easily. If the Pyra lid is anything like the Pandora one, once you've got the inside off and unclipped the hinge, the back comes off easily, so it would seem (subject to the fact the exact hinge mechanism hasn't been designed yet) that as a side effect he's making it easier to remove the lid entirely, should you want to.
