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Notable events, planned events and current progress, along with some history and news coverage. All current Development News can be seen at the Boards: Pyra News
Development History
2017
- July/August Prototypes were sent to developers to begin setting up hardware drivers, and preparing games and applications ready for first public shipments
2016
- 1st May Pre-orders open, reaching ~350 within 24 hours.
- 11th March Video of the very first fully assembled prototype
2015
- 22nd October Early morning all 200 pre-pre-orders at 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.
2014
- 18th July Revision of main PCB arrives, can be populated. Silkscreening not final. Picture. Based on the development board with the name dragonbfly rev3
News coverage
- 12th March 2016 Video: DragonBox Pyra open source handheld game console prototype liliputing.com
- 10th October 2015 Pre-orders open for DragonBox Pyra Linux handheld game console liliputing.com
- 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