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Just got home yesterday ;-) To simplify things, please contact me via skype or ICQ. Dual-pokey support is on the wishlist and planned for, it's not in any way working yet though.

Got mine as well (a week or so ago, while I was gone) ;D Thanks Wilba! [me=nILS Podewski]does the Wilba-machine dance[/me]

Modifying your previous post. Simply adding to the last post is way better than posting over and over and over and over again.

Pretty! Don't let Smash see that or he'll send his army of frogger machines to come and take it away ;D

Hahaha, yeah, that's the donation deposit header ;D Will look into that, thanks.

For some reason reason most english speakers tend to think that. English is definitely one of the easier languages to learn.

Well, you have to have a common ground at some point obviously. AFAIK this point would ideally be in the PSU.

There's an audio ground and a digital ground. Basically they are the same :-) It's just that the ground plane is split to isolate them from each other.

Beat it with a stick? I think I'll steal get inspired by that layout.

Conrad hat mittlerweile sowohl die MEC 3F + Kappen (auch in transparent) zu recht brauchbaren Preisen.

Quick preview of a first sketch of a possible mbSwinsid PCB:

I *think* they're done. They still need to be tested by someone. I don't really need the merger just yet, so I won't get around to testing them anytime soon. There's also a layout sketch for a perfboard variant in the .zip file. That's what they look like: merger_boards.zip merger_boards.zip

It does seem rather un-intuitive ;) I'd work a bit more on aligning the encoders and LEDs a bit more.

Sweet - updates ;D [me=nILS Podewski]fires up eagle[/me]

Willkommen an Bo(a)rd! Ein paar Details (Software, Version, welche Module, ...) würden sicherlich helfen Dein Problem einzugrenzen und zu lösen.

This has been an issue quite a lot. Just do a forum search for "relabeled".

Sorta OT but can't be stressed enough: Donating is definitely a way to go, but a lot of people (like me, sadly) have the choice to either build boxes or donate. For those (and all others): A "thank you" to Smash, TK, Wilba, Twin-X, strys_one (list incomplete and in no particular order) and whoever helped you out with your projects is always greatly appreciated. Soooo, give credit where credit is due - an *honest* "thank you" is a really good way to help keep the contributors to this mighty fine project motivated ;D

Once an IDC connector is "closed" it'S pretty had to open it back up. What I usually do (as I use a lot of old IDE cables in my midiboxes) is to break the top part which holds the cable in place and the slowly remove the cable. Then it's basically just a female pin header which you can solder a cable to.

"Second order?" Let's just wait another couple of days, maybe we get to n=2 ;D

Stop posting relevant stuff in german ;D Quick and really, really dirty simultaneous translation (a friend of mine read out the post, while I translated and typed it ;)) "@puddingbrumsel: The changes are really nothing major. I rearranged the cores, because the 200mm veroboards didn't match the size. Because of that I didn't have enough space for the audio inputs and the feedback filter. Apparently I couldn't fit the cooler on their either. It's blowing the air out the bottom now, which you don't see on the pictures though. Furthermore I socketed the filter caps, so I can easily replace them. I only used a 2x20 which meant I had to adjust the frontpanel layout. THe PSU part is completely rearranged. Oh an I don't have a headphone output on it. But that doesn't really have anything to do with the boards. No, I didn't draw the circuit on the board. I took the 200x100mm vero boards and stuck all the parts on where I wanted them to have. When I got it the way I wanted it, I took 2 more boards and transferred the layout 1:1 and soldered it. Keeping track of the traces is pretty easy. The hardest thing on vero is always the the first module - in my case the first Core and the first SID module. When you'Ve gotten the first one right you can just copy the other modules directly. Which doesn't involve any further thinking :-) Still in german, as I'm on a roll: Some people might be asking themselves why I would buid that board on vero. The answers are obvious. First up because you learn so much more than from just soldering a pre-layed out board and you have the option to change things to your liking. After I was done with my vero-stereo-SID, it was really interesting to me to understand Wilba's stereo-SID setup and button-matrix. And it'S really neat and simple, although one should really solder the diodes for the buttons first. I didn't think of it soon enough, so I had to solder all the diodes to the buttons and the cables later on. Sorry for the german, but I can just explain myself way better in german."

Man - I love this community. I just added a "total" column to the table without any explanation and everybody actually updated it every time. I'm impressed ;D

[ x ] got pictures?

haha :D sineSurfer == copyCat³ == thread-hijacker™

I could contribute some gearbox sand ;D

Shweeeeeeet ;D Reeally nice woodwork, too. I need friends that can do metal work for me.... :-(