The Big List Of Official Dev Team Updates

[Chip]

-2008-
March 3 Endian confusion ended
March 6 Volume slider issues
March 8 Volume slider and general dev update
March 13 Openpandora.org blog opened
March 15 Expandbility updates
March 20 New pics on blog
March 21 Battery size, capacity and runtime announced
March 23 Final price confirmed
April 2 Graphics chip driver issue resolved
April 7 Wifi / PCB updates
April 11 Working on demos
April 14 General progress updates
April 18 Key shape change
April 21 Hardware LCD demo video
April 22 Dev boards shipping
April 25 LCD test slideshow video
April 26 Demo video
April 27 JTAG info, Battery charge time
April 30 Pandora vs EeePC vs full laptop image
May 1 How to get a dev unit
May 8 900MHz stable OC confirmed
May 10 Pandora vs DS Lite size comparison video
May 11 Release / preorder updates
May 12 Clarifications on first batch
May 15 Burr Brown DAC
May 21 Problem with dev boards
May 25 Preorders detailed
May 26 Dev updates, USB problems
May 30 Bluetooth officially added
June 4 Final version will be more streamlined
June 5 Dev board shipping fiasco
June 10 Final PCBs soon
June 11 Dev unit update
June 14 Analog nub problem
June 17 USB problem solved
June 22 Developer fund concept, Pandora guts / PSP / DS pic
June 24 Wifi chip photo
June 25 Various dev updates
June 27 Two months of suspend to RAM on a full battery
June 29 Power switch explained
July 3 Working on Linux, SDL soon
July 9 RAM & clock speed limitations explained
July 10 Final AV port with audio in/out
July 11 Custom nub
July 14 FBA demo video
July 15 Extended arcade demo compilation video
July 17 Pandora runs modified beagleboard kernel
July 18 T2K Jaguar emulation video
July 20 There is a standard battery of about 3200 which will fit the pandora
July 21 Fully complete prototypes in Aug.
July 24 PandaSNES videos: Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid
July 26 SNES @ 500Mhz gets 8.5 hours on the beta battery with full brightness.
July 27 Picodrive video
July 29 Half-resolution LCD mode, Quake II video, Blog post with many technical updates
Aug 6 Another shipping disaster
Aug 7 Case manufacturing details
Aug 8 OTG and AV connectors, Power supply connector and rating, 802.11,b,d,e,g,i,k
Aug 13 Pics of the final-ish assembled case
Aug 15 Confirmed OpenGL ES 1.1 support , Touchscreen details
Aug 16 New pre-order and ship date estimates
Aug 17 Promises to document the hardware.
Aug 19 HD demo video
Aug 25 Hardware OMAP bug
Aug 27 New renders of case pieces
Aug 30 Final analog nub video
Sep 5 Final production case coming in September
Sep 10 Pre-orders delayed Still on for Sep 30
Sep 12 UAE4Pandora (Amiga emulator) video
Sep 14 USB gamepad video
Sept 16 Solderable points update.
Sep 26 New Megadrive Emu video with sound and USB gamepad
Sep 28 Ubuntu on Pandora video, TV-out cable no longer included.
Sep 30 Updated Ubuntu video with working Firefox, Preorders open up.
Oct 1 GP32X goes down due to DDOS attack.
Oct 2 New, temporary forum opened up while GP32X gets sorted out, Pre-orders extended through the 5th.
Oct 4 New PSX video with Zod's latest build - Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy 7, and Wipeout XL
Oct 5 GP32X back on line.
Oct 6 Preorders sold out - aprox 4000 total.
Oct 8 New PSX video from MWeston
Oct 13 MK2 boards arrived
Oct 14 Blog update - finishing touches in progress
Oct 15 Final PCB pics
Oct 23 New Pics - Populated PCB and prototype breakout board
Oct 24 First GUI video and new blog post, New board pics
Oct 28 Touchscreen pressure sensitivity confirmed
Oct 30 Pandora hardware upgraded to 256MB RAM and 512MB internal NAND storage
Oct 31 Additional RAM should only cost about 20 min. of battery life.
Nov 1 Compilation of RAM / banking updates
Nov 2 2nd batch will sell for $339
Nov 3 Lots of updates
Nov 5 Audio hardware details
Nov 8 Bare EXT connectors to be made available to hardware modders
Nov 9 Minor refund update
Nov 11 Devs wanted, New blog post
Nov 17 Bank status update
Nov 18 Minor keypad clarification
Nov 21 Major ordering and manufacturing update
Nov 22 More hardware and software info from EvilDragon
Nov 23 New blog post: If... When... Why...
Dec 1 New blog post, December updates
Dec 7 Multitasking UI video, Update on refund situation
Dec 9 Credit card reorder update
Dec 10 Manufacturing update
Dec 11 Keypad mats not delivered yet.
Dec 15 Keypad mat has arrived, Blog update with video
Dec 17 Reorder update
Dec 19 Matchbox UI video
Dec 20 Keymat pics, more pics
Dec 21 Blog post: Website downtime due to exploit, Warcraft 2 working under DOSBox
Dec 24 Reorder mini update
Dec 27 Assembled lower half pic
Dec 28 Christmas update
-2009-
Jan 2 Minor manufacturing update
Jan 3 Several manufacturing and ordering updates
Jan 6 New news post on Openpandora.org front page
Jan 10 Minor battery update on dev blog
Jan 13 Pandora OS source code available via online GITweb interface
Jan 21 Extended explanation of manufacturing situation, Minor ordering update
Jan 23 Render preview
Jan 24 Reordering instructions update
Jan 27 Fully assembled Pandora video
Jan 29 Reorder deadline set, New prototype demo video
Feb 6 New render

 

[D.C.]

Nice work, as usual. I'm surprised "they" haven't made you moderator by now.

 

[Tobriand]

Brilliant work, Chip!

Pinned.

 

[craigix]

Thanks Chip

 

[Esn]

Nice work, as usual. I'm surprised "they" haven't made you moderator by now.

If anybody deserves moderator status, it's Chip. His conduct has been great and all of the posts that I've seen by him over these past few months are mature and to the point. I especially value his reluctance to join in useless chatter and speculation, something that's truly rare on these forums right now.

Great post.

To give the benefit of the doubt to chad78 & co., maybe all they needed was to see the information in one place like this rather than spread out among many threads.

 

[gaterooze]

Agreed, and that's a great list.

 

[gruso]

Great work Chip. Here's hoping this thread sprays a fine, cooling mist of water over some of the heated impatience.

 

[craigix]

Fancy adding this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbPQJUOsQBQ

 

[Chip]

Fancy adding this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbPQJUOsQBQ





Done. I guess now that it's pinned I'll have to keep it up to date

 

[ingrin]

Nice work, as usual. I'm surprised "they" haven't made you moderator by now.

If anybody deserves moderator status, it's Chip. His conduct has been great and all of the posts that I've seen by him over these past few months are mature and to the point. I especially value his reluctance to join in useless chatter and speculation, something that's truly rare on these forums right now.

Wow, I'm embarassed to admit, but I didn't realize he WASN'T a moderator until D.C. mentioned it...

 

[MWeston]

Nice work, as usual. I'm surprised "they" haven't made you moderator by now.

If anybody deserves moderator status, it's Chip. His conduct has been great and all of the posts that I've seen by him over these past few months are mature and to the point.

+1

 

[Prometheus]

+2 to that.

Great post, Chipster. There's some stuff here that'd I'd missed, over time, which is interesting to see. Thanks much.

 

[nubie]

Thanks Chip... Thaip (??)

Very cool of you to do.

 

[Squidge]

Nice one, chip!

 

[TaG]

I guess now that it's pinned I'll have to keep it up to date
I hope so. Nice work Chip.

 

[rmm2131]

Beautiful job Chip and thanks for another nice video Craig.

 

[Null]

Thanks Chip... Thaip (??)

Thanks Chip... Thip.

Fixed that for you.

Anyway Thip for a job well done.

 

[Ayla]

I read "3/13 Openpandore.org blog opened".

Nice work

 

[parag0n]

This is a software update, it might be worth adding them to the list too!

July 17th: Pandora runs modified beagleboard kernel

 

[Tobriand]

Another update added to the list:

July 20th There is a standard battery of about 3200 which will fit the pandora