cavey

Now this is an interesting idea. Could bring the cost down a whole hella lot. Would it be cost effective as well for a breadbin sized layout, like TK's classic midibox sid?

Oooh! I've been looking for these a long time. @smashtv thanks for all the years! Now I can start collecting parts for the sequencer and mb6582 \o/

I might have one left. From .nl I have almost all parts to populate the board (except for optocouplers, din and led), so I could provide it somewhat kitted for you. I did solder the mcu already (see picture). Haven't been able to test my solderwork yet (might be a while before I can test it too). So if you don't mind a bit of an extra wait, I can part with my second set once I've completed the first one :D

Oh, this is a very interesting thread. Hopefully another run will be done soonish again. Been slowly gathering parts for a c64 equipped with the baseboard. Just need a baseboard to get started :p so it pays to check the shop once in a while. I seem to keep missing the runs haha :)

Sounds like, since you're using the internal osc, that the PIC gets started. Once started, you can't burn to it anymore. Not sure how advanced the MBHP burner was, but it's based on JDM burner as far as I can remember. The problem with the JDM burners is that it supplies a voltage to the PIC, which starts up the PIC software. There needs to be a small delay in applying a certain voltage, so that the PIC doesn't start up but does get into programming mode. Try a different burner :) I got myself this one through ebay 2 years ago: Enhanced JDM PIC programmer A couple of years ago I found a webpage with a mod on the JDM burner, to accomplish exactly that. Unfortunately, the page is dead. Managed to salvage things through archive.org and have it hosted here right now: http://caveymon.com/~cavey/jdm/ Cheers.

just voted, probably daaaaaaays late but who cares :) white on red! GUS POWER!

Hmm, now that you mention the LED tester. I tried that one. It seems some leds are less bright when a lot are lit, but are of similar brightness when lit individually. I'll go ahead and desolder the LED with permanent dimness, and check out the other ones. Cutting up the LED is a very good idea to easily desolder the stuff :D (So obvious, I didn't think of it myself >_< )

Hi there, I soldered my sammichSID during the christmas holidays. The whole machine is running just fine right from the beginning. I just have one small issue: 3 LED's aren't as bright as the rest of the 45 LED's. What could possibly cause them? Ofcourse I just think of putting up this topic now, when I'm nowhere near the sammichSID to point out which LED's... so this is just coming straight from the brain: Right hand side of the LED's, 1 LED in the second bar, 2 LED's in the third bar. So I'm thinking that I might have overheated the LED's, or there's some other problem (I did get 3 extra LED's, so I could swap them out... somehow. Solderbraid and me don't go too well though :P) Any ideas/tips for troubleshooting?

Oooh!! An AN1x synth! \o/ <3

If I'm not mistaken you're looking for this page: http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wilba_mb_6582 Some links to construction + pictures...

Darn, that matte black looks awesome. I'm up for changing from acrylic grey to matte black (forcedly or by sheer free will :P)

Maybe your LCD is flaky because of 4bit/8bit troubles in the LCD driver (either on the software side, or on the hardware side?) Glad to hear you found the solution to your fuse troubles :D

I like the dark stuff. Could you make the quick reply box have a greyish background? It sticks out like a thumb in my sore eye with the rest being dark. The breadcrumbs on top are nigh impossible to read (black on dark grey background? hmmmz) Oh, could you compress the icons a bit? There's too much screen real estate being lost on spiffy nice icons, making the dark layout look rather untidy to me. Too much scrolling to go through the complete list of boards Compare with f.e. http://www.dnbforum.nl/index.php?op=forum more condensed, better overview :D