Birthplace of a Pandora Board and a power loss (2010-09-16)

September 22nd, 2010, 16:18 Posted By: wraggster

News from Evil Dragon

Forgive me for not posting much during the last days - it doesn't mean we're trying to hide something, it just means I'm busy with real life... or soldering LCD cables, as I did during the last days.

You might've seen from Fatih's Tweet yesterday, that painting still was not finished and therefore we had to change the shipping date.
This time, there's not really anyone to be blamed - as there was a power loss in China in their area for a couple of days - yeah, something that's hard to imagine in most places where we all live.
So they lost a few productive days...
They tried to speed up the painting to finish in time - but as some samples showed, not a good idea:



As soon as I get more infos from Fatih when the last piece of case has painted, I'll let you know.
We're currently discussing about sending more cases via air and less via ship to have them all here when the boards are finished.

Regarding board production and nub testing, there's nothing new yet, as we usually get a status update each Friday. So tomorrow we will probably have more infos.
However, I got some pictures from the board company, showing their facility and machines. Basically the birthplace of the Pandora Boards!
When they find some time, they will also take some pictures of the actual Pandora production, this will be neat

Last but not least, we've also been working on some new stuff.
Board Rev6a is finished and prototypes are in production. That revision doesn't add new things for the customer, it just has been designed to make production faster (we don't need to scratch up the boards to connect shielding for CE anymore and similar things) and most important: It has some testing points added near the WiFi chip that makes debugging of the driver more easy. That might help fixing the last WiFi problems out there.

So basically, that revision helps us speed up everything, make CE conformity easier and helps us debugging.

Also, the new revision of LCD cables will be produced shortly.

Mainly the same here: The speaker wires moved outside of the connector area, the cable is now completely shielded - and that means we don't have to use tons of copper tapes ourselves anymore to shield it manually. This should also help speed up production in the future and making it more robust.

We're still moving forward, and I guess that is the most important thing for this project. More news as soon as I have them

http://boards.openpandora.org/index....ss-2010-09-16/

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