Pyra-news July 2014

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A bunch of Pictures
by Michael Mrozek 27 Jul '14

27 Jul '14

Well, not that much to report this week. Nikolaus has populated some PCBs (so I've got something to show at the GamesCom) and got the BOE display to work (without the Solomon Chip yet). As you might be interested to see some pictures of the populated PCB, you can check them at the blog post (linked below). I mostly took care of the T-Shirt and merchandising stuff that will be ready to order for GamesCom (or shortly after). aTc, lunixbochs and TrashyMG are fiddling around with devboards right now (well, lunixbochs uses Trashys via SSH) and they got the SGX to work (with quite a few issues still, but it does work). Maybe I'll be able to show some 3D stuff at the GamesCom as well - but we'll see that. Right now it seems Ubuntu ARM is better supporting the OMAP5 than Debian - so maybe we'll steal some packages from Ubuntu for our OS or maybe even use a minimized version of Ubuntu (without all the bloat). It's too early to tell something right now, it's mostly playing around to see that things are working. Ubuntu and Debian are very close together, so some exchange between both might be a good idea. Comment to the blog entry and view the pretty pictures at the boards: http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/16723-a-bunch-of-pictures/ -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Michael Mrozek ----------------------- OpenPandora GmbH Geschäftsführer: Michael Mrozek Schäffbräustr. 11 85049 Ingolstadt Deutschland Tel.: 0841 / 13 177 33 http://www.openpandora.de/ HRB 4879, Amtsgericht Ingolstadt ----------------------- eMail: mrozek(a)openpandora.org

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A small photo story
by Michael Mrozek 20 Jul '14

20 Jul '14

A lot of this post doesn't make much sense in a text-only eMail - so if you want to see the full story, please head to the forum :) Time for a new summary of the stuff that has happened. Well, as mentioned, we're mostly working on the display now and preparing for the GamesCom (where we also want to present the Pyra with a display, of course) Let's start with... 1. The Case ----------- The shoulder button area has been changed and looks a lot more usable now. Of course, a test will tell us that. Not much more has happened here, as we're mostly waiting for the final PCB and LCD. 2. The PCB ---------- Mainboard Rev3 is finished - which is already pretty advanced. It will be used to find design flaws, bugs - and then hopefully, Rev4 will be last. The PCB will be populated next week. Next up is a little photo story (well, visit the boards to see the pictures) showing how Nikolaus populates a display PCB. Nikolaus bought himself some equipment (a stencil printer) to be able to populate prototype PCBs himself at home. Next step: Get the Displays to work :) 3. The GamesCom and other preparations -------------------------------------- Askarus and I have been working on our GamesCom Booth. Here is a small overview of what our booth most probably will look like is attached to the mail. Additionally, I've opened up the Pyra section in the DragonBox shop: https://www.dragonbox.de/en/45-pyra It will be filled with some merchandise products soon. I'll also put the actual unit on there (of course, it can't be ordered yet), as the shop supports notification eMails, so everyone who has interest in the device but doesn't want to follow the development can inscribe himself into the notification list and get an eMail when ordering starts. See you soon :) To see the post with pictures and comment on it, please visit the boards here: http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/16700-a-small-photo-story/ -- Greetings, Michael Mrozek aka EvilDragon ----------------------- OpenPandora GmbH Geschäftsführer: Michael Mrozek Schäffbräustr. 11 85049 Ingolstadt Deutschland Tel.: 0841 / 13 177 33 http://www.openpandora.de/ HRB 4879, Amtsgericht Ingolstadt ----------------------- eMail: mrozek(a)openpandora.org

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