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Ehum...yeah..this is kind of embarrassing... Well, the project has stand still from my last post. The good news is that it's not in the bin. I see various bits of it lying around in my hobbyroom every day. Actually it is not so much left to do. A couple of pcb's to draw, frontpanel have to be made and some programming. Hopefully I can get some time and motivation to finnish the project this summer.

This project is like Bambi on ice, slowly moving forward. It's been in idle now for some month because /)%(%¤"(/¤ Vi*ta is not letting me use my CAD software. So right now i'm making some backups prior a XP install.. Your local glazier shop should have or point out for you where to look for the acrylic rod. I have abandoned the rod and got my plastic caps lasercutted instead.

Here in MB-land, we all are friends :D

Sucker for gold ;D I feel like I have to complete this project now realy soon. Because soon I'll get a CNC-router and then I think most of my sparetime is on that project 8)

Got mine today to. Great looking knobs 8) Thanks Goblinz for this great groupbuy! Here is my knobs together with one of my Traktor project PCB

Long time no PCB... Made one this weekend. One more (the last) FX board. Nothing new apart from that this time I used a chemical tin on the PCB. Really good stuff, seach for 529338 at Conrad. This prevents the copper to oxidate. I'm happy with the results. Obligatory pictures:

Paid right now :)

PM sent. Just hope it's not to late :-\

Who said that you can't do both? ;D But now my holiday is over so we'll see how much time I have to work on the project. It's very hard to route a single layer PCB with all the shiftrgisters, buttons, leds etc without having to place a few wire jumpers if you are planing to etch it yourself. Yepp, they are a pain in the hole to solder... Thanks fore your comment on the interconnection cables, they fit perfectly on my modified SIL headers :) Nothing much have changed on the frontpanel, not fabricated yet. I have seen those Nokia LCD MTE uses, looks cool. Maybe I can implement one LCD for each FX section on the front, I think that there is enough room to place them next to the FX PCB's. Have to look into that soon. Thanks 8) I think I saw you had a grouporder for the nokia displays in the german part of the forum? I can't speak german, so it's just a guess, but have you any spare LCD's over? Maybe I'm interested of 3 displays.

Update: One more FX pcb, the left mixer section and some cables have been built. Obligatory pictures: 8 of total 12 PCB's made now. 1,5 PCB to CAD left. 4 interconnection cables (drillbits, a really good investment over those HSS drills :o ) Left mixer closeup Left mixer botton close up: And now some porno 8)

Hey Sasha. The headers is standard SIL 2.54mm goldplated headers. But i have pushed the pins through the plastic so they just poke out from one end of the plastic. You can see a closeup in some picture from the previous page. This is so i can solder and connect standard female headers on the pins from the solderside of the pcb. If i dont push the pins they will not be long enough. The cap is there to bulk the incoming 5V, then I have 0.1uF SM caps close to each shiftregister on the pcb.

LOL, yes, MB get the girls ;D Not much, but here are some pics: First, the pcb for effects. will need three of those. Two for deck A,C and B,D and one for master effect Second, navigation PCB, need two. One for each deck LCD Third, 7 of total 12 pcb's made (one unsolderd). Slooooowly slooowly...

You know, life is in the way again.... I was in a good workflow, single and spent my freetime as I want. And then.. BIIOPBIIP, sms, then I'm stuck again :) Damn those girls ;D Actually, I have been done some work the last days. Pictures will come soon.

I also would like 130 of those "ice cubes". Hope your stock is greater than 200 ::) They look realy nice :)

Thanks, but it's long way from finished.. I would say that the 100g of force is a little bit more than a light fingertip tap. But it's the best button I could find for my box. I was also out after light force, primary for the transport buttons, to get fast reactions. I bought the buttons and caps from the company www.elfa.se , not cheap, but fast. You can hit the english flag in the top right corner. Search for 35-621-13 , thats the button with conductive rubber membrane that I use. /Wise

Hi I'm, using a button with "rubber feeling" for my midibox. It's from Fujisoku and has 100g of force to engage. I like it, maybe it's something like that you are looking for. Buildlog, pictures etc at: http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=6550.msg41535#msg41535 /Wise

Thanks! My only concern now is my crappy temporary psu. It's a 13.5V AC @ 1A -> DC = 19V -> 7809 -> 7805. It gets overheated after a short time when the led's are lighted.... Need to find a new transformer with lover voltage asap ! :P

Just a testrun with the four completed PCB's. And ohh: "Why do you need porno when you got MIDIBOX?" ;D ;D

Ok, got some work done today. Made the two PCBs for the loop function. Some link-cables and a temporary powerblock thing. A total of nearly 400 holes and approx 500 solderpoints, phuee. The obligatory picture: Can't wait to try those out tomorow 8) So, 4 of 12 PCB's finished now.

Sasha: Yes it's a ultrabright LED http://www.elfa.se/pdf/75/07506108.pdf, but i'm just driving it with 6mA. Enough to get your darkvision out of order 8) jensah: Yes, the caps are illuminated well i think. I have diffused the top of the caps so the light spreads a little better than if it was all clear. Nice to see other swedish midiboxers here, where do you live ? I'm from Hudiksvall.

Ok, got some work done today :) Solderd the second transport PCB and tested borth together, first try success at once ;D Here is a picture how I solved the interconnection between the boards. It's regular headers where i have puched the pins to one end. Then flat cable and female headers between the cards: And here are the two boards with every LED turne on. Itäs a bit of mess to the core, but anyway (acrylic caps missing in hte top PCB) 8) 8) 8)

Totaly agree with Sasha, boooooring wrok on the buttons. And when you got cramp after ten of 100 buttons, it's not so funny.. but.. when it's done it's do home made DIY ;D Great feeling, and look nice to. Bye the way, I etched the other transport PCB tonight. Not a 100% result, but with the work of a scalpel it might be good enough to use it.

Got some work done today. Finished the first transport PCB (almost, the only thing thats missing is the square button caps): 25/100 of the acrylic caps, sanded and ready to mount: The only thing that pisses me of is that I can't make a testrun with this baby untill late tomorow or saturday >:(

Ok.. here we go again :) After one year in sleep i thought i had to work on this again.. Guess what some call life came in the way.. well... Some work has been done lately. I got all the acrylic caps CNC drilled and laser cutted. And I have finished the spacers för the rectangular buttons. I promise it wont take a year again for an update :o

Hey DjLECTRix and welcome to the forum and the MIDIBox cummunity ! I ended up to use a mix of custom made buttons and brought ones. Check out my buildlog at : http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=6550.0 The project has been on ice for some time now, but next week my semester starts and I'll start on it again. /Wise