Altitude

I'm more concerned about stuffing an ultracore or core32 in there and having it clear the mainboard. So does anything stick out past the 10mm spacer and PCB?

So I am considering designing an all aluminum desktop case for another x0x build and it occurred to me that it may be a good fit to the SEQ also. This is the "side profile 1" FPE enclosure which just consists of two extruded sides, front and back panels, and top and bottom panels with a groove down each side. I have used this case for my TM3030 rack and they work out great and are not expensive. I paid $70 for the 1u with machined front and back panels but I did not do the top and bottom panels at FPE (they were $40 ea.) and just used 1/16" aluminum sheet from the local metal supply. What I would like to know from someone is what is the PCB + component height off of the face plate when all is said and done? There are two different side profiles height wise but a 1u would be really nice and thin. The FPE enclosure someones implementation of it:

Not that I am part of this but I thought I would add that BLUE = LAME

I think I have some stuffed ones. Let me get back to you

Nice! Why not drop a 40 pin ZIF socket in there instead? A lot easier to get the pics in and out

Try it, you will be surprised. I would not even think about think about rosins after using organics (14 projects later). Leaving the flux on is just fine btw, that's why it is called "no clean" flux

No, it's not that. I can upload the app just fine to the first core via MIOS studio, it just tanks when I go to clone the app to the other 3 cores. I've had this thing for 3 years almost and never had any problems till now..

You want to use whatever is made for the flux that you are using but there are decent generic "defluxers" I have had good success with this stuff at work (https://webvia.techni-tool.com/VIA/viaImagePageIndex.jsp?row=0&pgName=viaListProducts.jsp&searchText=758CH752&modifier=SEARCH&reqTitle=TITLE_VIASEARCHRESULT&newWindow=Y) The best thing to do however is to use organic flux which is water soluble so you just rinse it off with warm water (much easier to clean) and then use the no clean solder on the no water liking parts.

I get around ;P

Running 3 5x5x5s right now on win 7 64bit with no problems :ahappy: so yes and yes to your first questions. The eeprom was for changing the name of the interface as it is displayed when connected and also allows for changing the names of the individual ports (this can also be done by editing the driver) however due to some issues with how the actual chip is coded, none of these things can be done when running all five i/o's so you dont need the eeprom at all, it will run in the default midibox config just fine without it.

That's what i'm talking about.. Wood always makes it sound 200% better ;P

Now that I have seen what Ponoko can do, this looks like a perfect thing for them to make and their "Opal" material looks almost identical to Sasha's. So Sasha, which of your designs works best in your opinion? Which one offers the least required clearance between the underlying PCB and the front panel?

And the finished product. These have the "burned" sides..

Ok, Reburned the bootloader and MIOS 1.9g onto the slaves and lo and behold, still CAN bus errors when I am trying to clone and the pics function normally in my test core.. I did upload the app to the slaves individually and that worked fine. Cloning was working fine up until I uploaded 1.9g btw..

So with inspiration from Twin-x, I decided to have a go at some panels for the nIL's 5x5 board. This is the 5mm bamboo material (unfinished) from Ponoko: This one has the sides sanded since they came off the stock pretty well scorched from the laser(however that did not look bad either..)

Thanks for the help, dusting off the burner now.. Unfortunately, I did this when 1.9g came out and have not really worked on it until now whatever I did will be lost to time..

Nope, nothing is sent at any time from the pic and it never reboots when Studio tells it to. The 00 ID pic didnt have any problems btw. The procedure I followed was to hit the soft thru to the slaves and send a "dumb" upload (sent on different ID channels, one at a time until done) however I dont see that in the manual anymore and there is a note that bidirectional communication is required, which very well may be what the issue is here * Edit, I made a mistake in my first post, the screen says 1.9f not 1.9g so it looks like using the thru method did something to the bootloader and 1.9g did not arrive as I thought. Time for the P18 i guess. Any reason why I should not upload 1.9g and go back to 1.9f for the slaves?

I unfortunately missed the part about not needing to update MIOS for the slave pics in my MB6582 and went ahead and uploaded 1.9g via the thru method. After the reboot, I got CAN errors when trying to clone the app to the slave cores so I figured I borked something uploading MIOS to the slaves. I finally got around to pulling the PICs out to look at what happened and it looks like the 1.9g did upload, I get the title but it immediately goes to two rows of solid bars and what is even stranger, I do NOT get and upload request when I start the pic. I can not upload anything with MIOS studio and it hangs on the reboot cycle. Anyone have any thoughts on what I did wrong or if there is a way to fix short of reloading the bootloader? Cheers, Alt

Now that I have 3 GM5s up and running, couple questions: Any way to name the ports if there is more than one interface(i.e. different port names on different interfaces)? Can the EEPROM be used at all in 5x5 mode? I understand the naming issue but it would still be very useful for me if I could name the devices different things even if I have to keep the default port names cheers, Alt

Vielen Dank Thorsten! Looks like we are getting somewhere. Both 1.1 PCB with jumpered J8 and Nil's 5x5 now show show up in all apps under V32. Strangely, port 1 of both interfaces now shows as "ww kabel 1"

Just tried it on my 1.1 5x5 with J8 open and shorted (via jumper) with the same results. Same thing on the 1.1 1x1 (J1 open, J8 open)