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  5. Happy Holidays!

    in Miscellaneous

    Posted

    It has always been my custom to say Merry Christmas to All! As I've learned, there are many differing beliefs, customs, theories, et al , but I don't intend to unintentionally preach nor do I wish to start a flame war. My only wish is to wish You, 'Boxers, my good friends all, peace and prosperity now and in the upcoming new year. I've found this community to be welcoming, helpful, charitable, and intelligently humorous. The forums here are the first thing I check, every time I start up my PC. Email and my other work related duties, come in second, as I wish to always start my sessions with a smile. MIDIBox and the people here, do that for me.

    Thanks For existing, and making me happy these many years,

    Royal Scam

  6. Sorry to ask but i need donations

    in Latest News

    Posted

    I've been pretty much broke for the past year and a half.  However, I found something on E-bay I really wanted, but like usual, I was outbid at the last minute.  So my small contribution will be the money I would've spent frivolously otherwise.  I hope it helps.

    RoyalScam

    P.S. Why is it when you drop your wireless mouse it always falls under the desk?

  10. Core-reboot problem

    in Testing/Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Howdy!

    The diode and resistor that Flemming mentioned in the above post, are part of the CAN bus interface and connected via J15 and J2 ;

    http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid/mbsid_v2_communication.pdf

    As I have not yet constructed MIDIbox SID V2 (still running V1 here, with one SID6581 ), I can only speculate.  But I did notice Techno PWM and some other patches didn't sound right.  As you put it "noisy"  My 6581's came as pulls from various working and non functioning C-64's.  I replaced a 2484 dated 6581 with a 6581R3 datecode 0786 (S?).  Long story short, it sounds much better.  I also have an R4 another R3 and a few with no rev. no. after the 6581.  If you have another SID, I'd give it a try.  But do the CAN bus additions and let us know how it goes.

    Dean

    aka

    Scam

  11. Old version VS. new version core/sid/mios ?

    in MIDIbox SID

    Posted

    Hi!

    I'm currently running my MIDIBox SID as ver1, only because I haven't gotten around to the conversion.  V1 is no longer supported as a platform, but the folks here are always willing to help.  The big issue in the conversion from V1 to V2 is the PIC controller used. V1 uses the 18F452 while the V2 uses the 18F4685.  The complete conversion process can be found here;

    http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid_manual_up.html

    But, being that you already have the parts, I'd first build the V1 as you already have what you need to get started, you can always convert later, using the Core and SID module you already have.  They'll work fine, but as always, check the schematics for changes.

    I will say that the specs and functions of V2 are REALLY impressive, check the DEMOs.  I've gotta get my lazy butt in gear and get started on it.  Read through the excellent V2 docs to see what I mean.

    Have fun!

    Scam

  13. 303 Control Extension?

    in MIDIbox SID

    Posted

    Hi All!

    I was looking through past posts here and saw TK's proposed 303 Control Extension,

    http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,5680.0.html

    Like all things MIDIBox, it fascinated me.  However, I had no idea what a TB-303 really was ( I'm an old fart ).  So after much Google and this video I have a better understanding.

    http://www.archive.org/details/NateHarrisonBasslineBaseline/

    It'll be neat if it does get implemented( I'm not pushing TK, just liked the idea ).

    Also, Thanks to Dave_Wheeler in this post;

    http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,5458.msg33578.html#msg33578

    I've downloaded rebirth and I'll probably throw together a MB64 to play with it.

    See I read everything, it just takes me a few years to catch up!

    Scam

  14. Just saw this on YouTube thought Boxers would like to hack it.

    in Miscellaneous

    Posted

    I don't do any type of DJ stuff, I don't really understand MIDI to tell the truth, but I really like the MidiBox community. When I saw this, I thought you guys would love to snatch up these controllers for use in your own MB projects.

    <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="

    name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="
    type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>

    Note: he says it'll be available for ps3 360 and Wii so I'm thinking wireless or USB.

    regards

    Scam

  15. The forum game V2 (images/YouTube videos only!)

    in Miscellaneous

    Posted

    Well it's not a tractor and a Jazz band, but it is an 8080 and a SID

    <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="

    name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="
    type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

    Hey I guess I can embed...go figure!

    Scam

  16. WIKI perhaps a prob, my workaround.

    in MIDIbox Documentation Project

    Posted

    OK, You're gonna love this,

    I had some time today so, at S1's request, I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe reader ver. 9.1.0 and great! it worked!  A few minutes into my session Adobe updater asked to update to 9.1.1 I allowed it.  Now the thing was hosed again.  So I uninstalled /reinstalled 9.1.0 and it was still hosed.  Why I decided to keep clicking on the link( http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=seppoman:ssm2044_schematic.pdf ) I won't know, but it worked after about three clicks, and now it seems to work in about 1 in 3 tries. I since updated to 9.1.1 and so far it's still behaving the same way.

    My stuff;

    Windows XP SP3

    Firefox 3.0.10

        plugins

                  Adobe Acrobat

                  IE Tab plugin

                  Microsoft DRM

                  Windows Presentation Foundation

                  JAva

                  Shockwave

                  Quicktime 7.6

    As for right-click save that works, and disabling the browser plugin also works, go figure, and as I said earlier, right-click open in IE tab works. Just odd behavior.

    Thanks!

    RoyalScam

  17. replace the tl074s

    in MIDIbox FM

    Posted

    You could try this to get a  bipolar power supply from a 9volt battery

    I hope I can do this in text;

        ________________ +

        |      |        |

        |    10k    10uF

        |      |        |

        +      |        |

      9V    ------------  GND

        -      |        |

        |      10k    10uF

        |      |        |

        -----------------  -

    Just be sure to use at least 5% resistors.  This circuit may work, but the battery won't really last that long.  Also the MBFM uses a 12v bipolar supply and as such 9volts(or a bit less in this case) will decrease the headroom and prob raise the noise floor.

    Regards,

    Dean

    RoyalScam

  18. WIKI perhaps a prob, my workaround.

    in MIDIbox Documentation Project

    Posted

    Howdy!

    I was reading about the Dual SSM 2044 VCF boards in the WIKI and noticed that when I clicked on the PDF of the schematic the tab in Firefox (3.0.10) reads fetch.php (application/pdf Object) and essentially nothing happens.  My workaround was to open the link in IE tab (it's a plugin) and it displays fine.  I'm just curious if I might have something configured wrong in Firefox.

    Thanks,

    Dean

    RoyalScam

    BTW same behavior on the MB6582 Wiki

  23. LEDs as input devices

    in Design Concepts

    Posted

    Well, poop.  I should've known it's been seen before.  Nice dream though.  Besides, Forrest Mims was cited in the article and it reminded me of all the great things I learned because of him, back when I was a geeky kid with a Library card.

    Scam

  24. LEDs as input devices

    in Design Concepts

    Posted

    OK Boxers! I won't even pretend that I understand micro controllers at this point, but I'm pretty sure that this may be the next big thing since the lighted push button switch.  I somehow stumbled onto this doc and thought that someone here with better chops than I might find this as fascinating as I did.  I didn't know that an LED in it's reversed biased state can actually be used as a photodiode, according to this doc a device can be made using the LED as both an indicator and input device.

    I believe that this is being used in this video;

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6431755676396318073

    And the paper describing the circuit is here;

    http://www.merl.com/reports/docs/TR2003-35.pdf

    Whaddya think, Sirs?

    RoyalScam

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