[craigix]

marshal, on 18 October 2009 - 01:37 PM, said:

craigix, on 18 October 2009 - 08:31 AM, said:

Yes, especially considering I've gone slightly mental in the last 6 months.

Then, just as I thought things could not get more strange the fuse box in my house exploded on Sunday setting fire to the house - at 5am, god bless insomnia because it meant I was awake when it happened.

The interesting news is that this and other events have been recorded recently as I've been doing a series of video interviews, or rather one long interview filmed over a few weeks. Should make interesting viewing for those of you interested.

How bad were the damage ?
Well I guess the most important is that you're ok :)

About 5 grand according to the insurance company, quite a mess.

[VRAndy]

Game_over, on 18 October 2009 - 02:00 AM, said:

I'm not trying to attack anyone there is allot of weight as to what some of you are saying, however the tonality and consistency of what's being said over several threads from the same people are borderline trolling.

- Someone (Monk) was insulted (by a Craigix) for believing that the mold design was unfinished.
- Later he makes a post repeating what craigix had told him: that the mold design is finished.
- He is slammed again (By non-developers) for believing that the mold design was finished.
- He is also slammed for claiming (correctly) that Craigix claimed that the mold design was finished.
(The issue is severely muddled by people confusing case design and mold design.)

It's still not clear to me whether the mold design itself is done. I'm not even sure if the development team knows, since it's sort of internal to the Chinese factory. (And it doesn't really matter, since we have a estimated date for the construction of the molds.) It seems perfectly reasonable to try to get clarification on these sorts of things. After all, people have been asking these sorts of questions throughout the whole project and they've more-or-less been welcomed by the development team who are trying to be as "open" as possible.

... So I'd like to know who you're accusing of trolling.

... Failing that ... I'd like to make sure it's not me.


-Andy

[VRAndy]

craigix, on 18 October 2009 - 01:14 PM, said:

About 5 grand according to the insurance company, quite a mess.

That sucks, sounds like just large enough of a fire to be a major hassle.

Do you have smoke damage to all your stuff?

[craigix]

Yep, what a bastard that is to get off everything, especially the ceiling!

[fiori_musicali]

So, Craig... It wasn't the Pandora prototype that started the fire, was it?

At the final CE & FCC testing I bet the unit is going to burst into flames and spit fireballs and radioactive acid lightnings in every direction, distrupting all telecommunications and human cognition within a five mile radius.

[matzesu]

I think, it was a great luck, that you and your familie, not getting damaged,your life is more important, than your stuff for the gbax shop, and the pandora, how can a fuse box getting explosed?, mybe the stress from the pandoraprojekt have save your life,
for your house, you have a insurance, but not for your life...

[rmm21]

craigix, on 18 October 2009 - 01:14 PM, said:

craigix, on 18 October 2009 - 08:31 AM, said:

Yes, especially considering I've gone slightly mental in the last 6 months.

Then, just as I thought things could not get more strange the fuse box in my house exploded on Sunday setting fire to the house - at 5am, god bless insomnia because it meant I was awake when it happened.

The interesting news is that this and other events have been recorded recently as I've been doing a series of video interviews, or rather one long interview filmed over a few weeks. Should make interesting viewing for those of you interested.

About 5 grand according to the insurance company, quite a mess.

Sorry about the fire Craig. That's a frightening thing to deal with when the safest place each of us has(home) turns into one of the most dangerous places to be.

Insomnia is no fun either(for me too).

[Aninhumer]

fiori_musicali, on 18 October 2009 - 07:22 PM, said:

So, Craig... It wasn't the Pandora prototype that started the fire, was it?

At the final CE & FCC testing I bet the unit is going to burst into flames and spit fireballs and radioactive acid lightnings in every direction, distrupting all telecommunications and human cognition within a five mile radius.

But the spikes are under the line with the LCD cable shielding, so it passes. :P

[Vorporeal]

Aninhumer, on 18 October 2009 - 06:34 PM, said:

fiori_musicali, on 18 October 2009 - 07:22 PM, said:

So, Craig... It wasn't the Pandora prototype that started the fire, was it?

At the final CE & FCC testing I bet the unit is going to burst into flames and spit fireballs and radioactive acid lightnings in every direction, distrupting all telecommunications and human cognition within a five mile radius.

But the spikes are under the line with the LCD cable shielding, so it passes. :P

The testing was pre-shielding. They're shielding the cables because there were spikes. It passes, but it's not worth the risk to just leave the spikes there.

[Stephane Hockenhull]

craigix, on 18 October 2009 - 01:31 AM, said:

Yes, especially considering I've gone slightly mental in the last 6 months.

Then, just as I thought things could not get more strange the fuse box in my house exploded on Sunday setting fire to the house - at 5am, god bless insomnia because it meant I was awake when it happened.

The interesting news is that this and other events have been recorded recently as I've been doing a series of video interviews, or rather one long interview filmed over a few weeks. Should make interesting viewing for those of you interested.

lets see; electricity, fire, smoke, explosions ...
nah, no one would like to see that would they ?

if you added some broken glass on the floor into the mix you'd probably get some known actor to walk barefoot thru all that spewing one-liners :P

do you know if it was a power spike or lighting strike or ?
sucks for the mess, hope the insurance isn't being difficult.

[lulzfish]

It was Sony, advertising their new PSP by setting up mock assassinations of the OP crew.

[MWeston]

I just got another confirmation that actual injected parts will ship to me next week. Some of the molds are completely done right now, others (I suspect the more complicated ones like base bottom, outer lid and definitely hinge mechanism area on base top) are still being shaved and tweaked this week. I asked if the delays were because they were still cutting them or if they were testing them and thankfully the delays are because they are testing them. They have an NDS lite as a reference for the color (within a few shades, not necessarily 100% exact), matte finish and build quality that we are looking for (except for hinge build quality, our parts are much thicker there). That was the easiest way to get over the language barrier that always gets in the way. "You make this now!" seemed easier. ;) Hoping for the best as always...

Oh, and second wave production PCBs (3895) were ordered on Sept. 30 just to get in the queue. We knew they wouldn't be starting until after the Chinese holiday anyway which is how it went down but we wanted our place in line. That gave us time to resubmit modified files if we had to before they did anything, but not lose our place. The boards should be deep into formatting and CAM inspection by now and perhaps already into the etching stage of inner layers.

This post has been edited by MWeston: 19 October 2009 - 04:22 AM

[Sphinxter]

Rocking good news, thanks.

[Gruso]

Sweet.

[BackAssward]

One quick question, when you say matte, how matte are we talking? I don't have a NDS Lite for comparison, but I thought it was be semi- reflective overall and a glossy outer lid.

Thanks.

Edit: At least that's what GIS returns when I look up the NDS Lite in black, and coincides with my understanding of what was planned for the Pandora.

This post has been edited by BackAssward: 19 October 2009 - 04:26 AM