Davo

So perhaps ganging two core modules together might provide the necessary resource?

Most male headers are designed to be broken into whatever length desired. You can get single-row headers and stack them to get a double row. If you're talking about single-row female header sockets, Mouser has those. Make sure you have some cyanoacrylate glue to tack down the headers so they stay straight while soldering them. Davo

I don't reccomend it. 1) Any oven you use will be permanently contaminated by solder and flux fumes. 2) The surface tension of surface-mount solder is very high. This allows parts to be attached to both sides of the board without risk of parts falling off. 3) It's very difficult to regulate an oven's temperature the way you need to for surface-mount work. There are ways around that, but deal with mounting parts rather than removing them. 4) Simply laying desoldering wick over the connection and pressing with a hot iron has always worked for me.

Ohh.... I like this! It looks like this guy can do everything I'd want to have done with my panel ideas. Some of them have nothing to do with synthesizers. For homebrewed computers (build the CPU out of 74xx series chips and have lots of switches and blinkenlights), this sounds great.

I think this is probably a better place to ask this: According to Buchi, the SID is very sensitive to shorts on the audio out and that one should put an opamp buffer there to avoid destroying the chip. On the schematics for the SID module and Buchi's own device, I see no opamp at the audio output. What am I missing? Is the transistor there sufficient?

Has anyone considered using what happens if R2 is missing to create random patches on purpose?

1) I keep seeing references to attaching two or more banksticks to a single core module. How is this done? 2) Is there some way to write-protect a bankstick? If so, I'll put a small switch in the hole where a cable would ordinarily protrude. 3) According to Buchi, the SID is very sensitive to shorts on the audio out and that one should put an opamp buffer there to avoid destroying the chip. On the schematics for the SID module and Buchi's own device, I see no opamp at the audio output. What am I missing? Is the transistor there sufficient?