DrBunsen

Try it. If you get blocked, let me know.

Maybe. Not at this stage though. Don't I already have a couple of filters to pick up from you?

They reckon the thinner stuff is becoming more common.

I made my pickup on Monday. Some of my items were from last week and some of them were a couple of months old. I got taken "backstage" into the main warehouse to see some other stuff he wanted to sell me (Vero subrack frames and accessories). Oh. My. God. Like, thirty foot high pallet racking filling a fifty by two hundred foot warehouse, jam packed with vintage lab and telco equipment. Bakelite knobs as far as the eye can see. They are the main surplus joint for Telstra. tmgtel and the-macservice-group are the same seller, with different but similar items. The Vero gear is gorgeous. Open framed 2U and 3U rack cases with brushed aluminum ears and plastick sub-rack slots for PCBs. The 3U one looks perfect for my Simmons SDSV voice cards. :D He wanted $150 for another four big packing boxes of the stuff - fair enough but I couldn't go another $150 on the day.

They mention the PCB thickness problem with laminators on that site, and sell their own thinner PCB. Also I reckon that the scrub etching process should work whether you're using their transfer stuff or not.

Link? :D

Also, before even reading any more of the forum material, it would be a good idea to go to the ucapps link at the top of this page and read all about the MIDIbox 64e project, and for background, maybe the MIOS pages. That site is the starting point for all the discussions on these forums, and reading thoroughly there will answer most of your questions. Good luck with it, if you've got till February a working 64e seems a reasonable project.

He says he knows nothing about the chips. Instead of reporting him to ebay, why not write to him and tell him he's got the description of the chips wrong? Most times I've found sellers are grateful for the information and will either include it in their listing or take down and relist.

I remembered the other day that my Digitech Quad i mentioned above has a single DSP running at 21 MIPs, and out of that it gets 4 effects, some of which can be dual effects (ie delay+reverb), 7 MIDI CCs per effect, and dynamic response on all four analog inputs. So *8* COGs running at 20 MIPs should be capable of some funky shit, even if they're not dedicated DSPs.

Well my house mate has a laminator, so I might give it a go when I've got something to etch.

No, actually that's very close to the original meaning.

Yeah I'm thinking that one would make a good ultra clock with DIN sync delay correction, and the other would make a good basic drum seq. Geez I'm pissed. You should come to one of the parties at our joint some time strydster.

The Electronics Club Basics, how to solder, lots of component info, projects to build with kits available.

Count me as interested too. I'd need to hear a price first of course. Also, would it be possible to tap off the triggers from your board to trigger external analogue modules? I mean by the builder. What's the trigger voltage?

You might also be interested in the transfer system I've linked here

I've added a thread about what looks like a really easy PCB making system. They claim you can go from artwork to a finished, plated, silkscreened and pseudo solder masked board in 15 minutes.

DIY PCBs in 15 minutes - including plating, silkscreening and pseudo solder masking, without UV exposure. They claim you can get lines as fine as .006". Seemingly the only catch is you have to use a laser printer or photocopier for your artwork transfer, not an inkjet. In their Hints and Tips directory there's a description of a method of etching without a tank - basically rubbing the etchant on the PCB with a sponge. They say it's faster and uses way less chemical. They also have some other good tips like for aligning a double sided board - do one side then drill your holes - and getting high even pressure when doing toner transfer with an iron, by rolling the board over a dowel. The same "Toner Transfer System" they sell can also be used for panel art - full colour, white, black or metallic onto black, white, clear, glass, CDs, etc. Even temporary tattoos ;D and milling small parts out of sheet brass. Apart from that, they sell an $89.95 vacuum forming kit for moulding custom plastic parts using a home or shop vacuum cleaner. I've only just found these guys so I can't comment on their materials or techniques, (all the above is just taken from their website) but they look sound, and the materials seem cheap enough. I also have no connection with the company, just an interested MIDIboxer.

Haha snap! I just loaded that in another window. Check my two new toys: Count the LEDs man... He has more.

Oh Lord, I couldn't imagine trying to replicate or port MIOS to this chip. I was imagining it more as a platform for building DSP devices that could be controlled from a MIOS core. But yes, one day perhaps MIOS will stretch its wings beyond its home planet and colonise other galaxies. Er, I mean, get ported to other µcs.

Haha. I used to get Future Music every month. They discovered µ-ziq. I've still got the issue and cover disk with his first demo on it.

Results: nothing specific on audio, midi or DSP so far. Still, the night is young as they say. Meanwhile this thread gives a really good rundown on on what the Propeller is capable of, what you need to get started, how coding works, etc. I'm a total n00b, should I start on a Propeller?

Speaking of 8 CPUs... I suppose this is the right thread to mention these in. As I recall, you're not up to the coding stage yet. And you did kick around a few different chips in your orginal thread (link? can't find it), yeah?

Ahem. I made a booboo (corrected above). That should have said 80 MHz, not 80 MIPs. Each instruction takes four clock cycles, so it's only 20 MIPs per core. And as I read it, for most apps you need to dedicate one core as a task master. according to a forum reply, the task master is onboard but separate to the 8 cores ("COGs") Still, $20... I'm off to search their forums for the words "DSP" and "audio" :D

Hi Andrew, Welcome back. Sorry to hear you've had a tough year. Have you checked out the new toy yet?

Good thing you left that big blank space on both sides of your panel then :D