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Patience. Patience. Patience.

Posted by Blatboy , 22 April 2012 - - - - - - · 37 views

Patience was never a strong trait of mine, at least when I'm obsessing on something.  This MB-6582 project is certainly my main obsession right now, and I've run into another snag that I can only blame myself for.I was not expecting to be able to get any work done last night, but the opportunity came up.  So, I started putting in the tactile switc...


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Progress: New lab, base pcb almost finished & panel arrival

Posted by Blatboy , 21 April 2012 - - - - - - · 44 views

My electronics "lab" has now been moved out of the laundry room and minimally set up in another nook in the basement.  Still yet to see if the landlord approves...  :ahappy:    I got it set up in time to put a couple hours of work on the base PCB.  I had picked up some 1K resistors at Radio Shack to replace the ones I destroyed.  I picked up 1/2 w...


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Lab frustrations

Posted by Blatboy , 17 April 2012 - - - - - - · 27 views

So, a little background:I have been doing my work a temporary lab I had set up down the basement of the building I live in.  It's actually in the laundry room.  I get in the way of the landlord trying to do his laundry, and I'm ducking under drying jeans just to get to the table.  I know the moisture in the room isn't ideal, but it's what...


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Fixed mistakes w/solder wick, added capacitors...

Posted by Blatboy , 13 April 2012 - - - - - - · 213 views

So... After a morning session, a 5 hour rehearsal and 2 hours working in my studio, I was able to sneak into the basement lab to do some work for a short spell.  Here's the board yesterday after I yanked... uh, carefully took out those resistors I had installed incorrectly...  It's the R4_SIDx and R24_SIDx series that I had put into the C3_SIDx/C2...


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First Week Recap

Posted by Blatboy , 10 April 2012 - - - - - - · 23 views

Here's a recap of my first week building my MB-6582.  Pics were taken on an iPad.  I love my iPad for a lot of things, and it's camera is definitely not one of them.I got my parts (so nice...so shiny) right before I had to split town a couple weeks.  Once I got back, I was rarin to go.Everything started off pretty smoothly.  I was being vigilant a...


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My first MB build - and cartoons with SID

Posted by Blatboy , 09 April 2012 - - - - - - · 30 views

Greetings.  I'm starting this blog as a record for myself, and also to keep from pestering everyone constantly on the MB Forum over all the details of what I'm  doing.  Even though I think it's incredibly exciting, I'm still in an orbit deep within the galaxy of Noob, you dig.  It's probably not that interesting to you kids out there w...