Timeline

Triple duty of notable events, planned events and current progress. Some history and News coverage. All Development News can be seen at the Boards: Pyra News

History and events

2014

• 18th July Revision of mainPCB arrives, can be populated. Silkscreening not final. [1] Based on the developmentboard with the name dragonbfly rev3

2015

• 22nd October Early morning all 200 pre-pre-orders á 290€ and 8 prototypes at 1400€ sold out
• 17th October 17.17 CET 200 Pre-pre-orders and 8 prototypes go live. 10 prototypes are reserved for devs.

2016

11 March: The very first fully assembled Prototype

• 11th March The very first fully assembled Prototype. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4t9Ys8wI6k

News coverage

• 21st July 2014 Pyra-Handheld: Open-Pandora-Nachfolger kommt vielleicht schon 2015 Golem.de and also ozcrates.lbti.me
• 20th July 2014 The DragonBox Pyra Moves Closer As OpenPandora Successor Phoronix and also reviewlinux.com
• 3rd March 2014 DragonBox Pyra picks up OpenPandora heritage open-electronics.org
• 11th February 2014 DragonBox Pyra. Mächtige Handheld-Konsole mit Linux vom OpenPandora-Macher GamingGadgets.de
• 10th February 2014 Open-source gaming with the DragonBox Pyra tgdaily.com
• 7th February 2014 DragonBox Pyra open source mobile game console to pick up where OpenPandora left off liliputing
• 3rd February 2014 EvilDragon Announces A Pandora Successor, The Pyra obscurehandhelds.com and also geeky-gadgets
• 2nd February 2014 Pyra: Open-Pandora-Nachfolger angekündigt Golem.de

And also back in 2014: DragonBox Pyra Open Source Gaming with the ARM Powered Console linuxgamenews.com