Especially now. When the original pandora came out, the market was different and even after the years it was delayed it was still a great machine for emulation.
But now, cheap and semi-open emulation devices exist in the dozens and paying up to 10 times as much just to get linux and a keyboard is not that appealing to many people.
If they could do it for maybe <300, I think there would certainly be people considering it, but at that price (and of course the fact that it seems to never get finished) I am not sure they can rally a great community again like they could with the original device.
A community wanting such a device would maybe be better of producing a keyboard/gamepad accessory for existing hardware and hacking free software for same. The rockchip based platforms seem like a good target for example.
If they could do it for maybe <300, I think there would certainly be people considering it, but at that price (and of course the fact that it seems to never get finished) I am not sure they can rally a great community again like they could with the original device.
A community wanting such a device would maybe be better of producing a keyboard/gamepad accessory for existing hardware and hacking free software for same. The rockchip based platforms seem like a good target for example.