No, with those requirements your project is definitely not going to happen.
The closest you could get would be a Panasonic Toughbook running an OPL3 emulation.
DIY treu bleiben ist toll. Aber irgendwo kann man durchaus sinnvolle Grenzen ziehen. Ich schreib ja auch nicht alle Software selber, nur weil ich es theoretisch könnte.
Ich hab genau den hier: http://cgi.ebay.de/AUSVERKAUF-PIC-PROGRAMMER-KIT-8-18-28-40PIN-MICROCHIP-/200382626290?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item2ea7bc39f2#ht_3472wt_1219
Also, if you really must use blue LEDs at least do the following:
Make a little test panel thingie out of cardboard or the likes with 5-10 LEDs. Trim the brightness until you like it. Then set the lit LEDs right next to your computer screen. If they don't bug you after 30 minutes raise the resistors by another 5% and you're good.
I did the entire thing on stm32 basically as a more feature heavy version of mbCV - it's in early alpha and since I went with a modular approach the source is definitely too much to handle for a pic. PM me if you're interested ;)
Au fein, Radneuerfindung! Mein persönlicher Tip: Ebay, Burner für <20EUR schießen der dann nahezu alle PICs unterstützt und auch noch funktioniert.
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USB2MIDI: Hast Du ein Link zum Produkt?
* been there done that :)
* I did pretty much just that for AOUT though - outputting LFOs via MIDI seems like a bit of a stretch (low resolution + low bandwidth or decent resolution + even tinier bandwidth)
* one button per 4 or 5 characters under the LCD, menu encoder + "ok/shift" and "abort" button is pretty much the most flexible and simplest user interface you can get away with
Notice something?
Pick one:
a) Change the resistors to something more suiting (like 22k)
b) Add a 20k pot in between every DOUT pin and its LED
c) Choose decent LEDs. Blue bad. Ultrabright blue very bad.
Blue bad.
Since the forum downtime delayed things a little bit, I'll try to work out the numbers and get back to everyone with invoices and PMs to the potential happy fellas with PMs towrds the end of this week maybe start of next week :)
I would gladly volunteer, but shipping is going to be a bit antifun - both financially anf time-wise. If all else fails you already have two volunteers on the other side of the globe :thumbsup: I guess you'll get some more responses from our US boxers once the forum hickups are over :)
Tudy: Thanks :) So 350mA at 12V makes the power consumption of your sammichSID 4.2 Watts.
Technician4: Well... Obviously a fan is a good idea. Then again, it pulls power (0.6W) from the very rail you are trying to cool with it. So it's kinda hard to tell if it'll actually make the whole situation worse rather than better :) Also, electrical motors tend to be very noisy and give you a fairly big amount of noise on the 5V rail... It won't kill the 7805, but I am not sure if it'll actually improve anything in the bigger picture ;)