jojjelito
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Hiya, Hate to rain on your parade but ALBS doesn't carry the DK16-190V3 in green. You can have any color as long as it's white, red, gray or transparent clear/blue/red. A lot of us have used the transparent clear knobs with green LED backlights. Your other alternatives would be to either use acrylic paint on some white ones or order a large amount of custom green knobs - say 1000 or so provided ALBS would listen to you then. Cheers, J
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Purrito is back! http://lolmart.com/shirt-of-the-week/
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Dude, don't tempt me. Let's see what happens after the holidays...
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Those linear PSUs must be nice, you could almost buy somebody's time to solder up something in an evening for that kind of money. Or get a serious amount of filtering components should noise be problem with the switchers. You'd still need -12 or -5V so the SLD-12-6034 is out unless you're willing to employ some voltage inverting trickery, but then you could roll your own PSU fully instead.
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Well, the Eagle autorouter is next to useless so you didn't miss out there. But, Eagle is very guilty of this 80's button mashing horror. I heard that once you learn it, Eagle can be useful but it ended up being a tedium of TLDR and a buttonfest so I discarded it as fast as I could. Eagle has great functions at a decent price but the interface comes from hell. Modernize bitches! Instead I went with ExpressPCB, but that's Windows only so that might be a problem for some. I should look at running it virtualized so I don't have to reboot out of Lion. Still, best of luck!
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If you have the budget, look at Orcad :) You can get Orcad PCB Designer Pro for around 10000 USD. It's really nice, but you have the nagging feeling that you're shooting at mosquitos with a howitzer while using it Why is there no EDA/PCB CAD software that doesn't solely rely on half-assed keypresses galore only (á la AutoCAD from medieval times), supports multi-touch gestures when applicable, is cross-platform and comes with integrated simulation (SPICE). There, my shopping list only contains easy demands Oh, it needs a free viewer other than PDF I can run on my mobile (iOS or Android). Easy.
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Hmm, this is very disco! An interesting side-effect is that it's probably cheaper to use the LPCXPRESSO than the older BLM which was using a special connector... What's not to like? 2-color LEDs vs full RGB? I think Wackazong used some RGB trick for his MB-Station? Grrtzz, /J
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Fun for me, or how not to initialize an OLED...
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No entries in the hosts file at home, but it still won't direct me the right way. Wonder if my ISP is just slow on updating the DNS? It works at the office oddly enough.
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Great idea - it can double up as a great foot-warmer There's no stopping that gravy train once summer is gone.
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Deffo interested in a window or two once available. /J
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Interesting this "all the great gear was made in the 70's and 80's and didn't need no stinkeen switch-mode supplies" :) Technology evolves, but a beefy toroid is just like a V8 - it's nice and chunky.
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Hehe, sounds luscious this little blue-green FM boxxah! This jet airliner cockpit dashboard of a programmer (it can also run a nuclear power plant!) is tempting. Just imagine being able to walk into this entire room in your basement which controls your FM mania... But, don't pimp your GF. Sell her and get moar gear...
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Kawai K5000 has the nicest, fastest, lightest (without feeling flimsy) keyboard mechanisms ever! It's definitely a synth-player keyboard. Classical weighted piano keys are better catered for elsewhere... Plus it's a *very* nice sounding and good-looking synth! Get one off Evil-bay, Craigslist or whatever serves your area. The E4K had the same Fatar mechanism I think.
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Set up toolchain. Now for some editor/IDE action...
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SmashTV SID and C64 optimized PSU, dobule Voltage Regulator?
jojjelito replied to tob's topic in MIDIbox SID
Nope, that 12V to 9VDC transformation sounds about right. The trick is that one of the PSU setup variants lifts the virtual ground of the 7809 with +5VDC to obtain 14V. That's referred to as PSU option B if referring to the MB6582. If you're rolling your own baseboard you could still nick a few ideas from there. 14V would only be needed from 6581 chips anyway. -
The Newhaven OLEDs seems to need some hacking. Well...
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Good thing that a big catfight seems avoided and that cooler heads prevail, but I was going to get the popcorn... Seriously though, stick around for a while! You might get a feel for how this community reasons, and why it would seem less enticing to bring on board lots of people using MIDIbox for school projects for instance. Short on time and needing something very much ready-made, just tweak it and presto! This would stress those in the know too much. This is not about instant gratification, more like read, read again, search. Do something simple, fail, debug, learn. Rinse and repeat some, then hopefully contribute. Best of luck with your endeavours! /J
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That's a really nice build! Plus thanks for sharing your sticker/adhesive panelling technique! Hmm... Those Optrex LCDs really shine! Costly, but they were totally worth it IMHO. /J
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Ai haz OLEDz! Stay tuned...
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Mb6582 plus 4 SSM2044 VCFs - use of a passive 4 channel stereo mixer?
jojjelito replied to Hermes's topic in MIDIbox SID
Hmm, I think you're on to something. Weird J2 on the Aout board is for reading data/statuses etc back to the core. Or you could daisy-chain em: J2->J1 of Aout 2 u.s.w. But, that's not supported by the applications as of now. But but but, if you want full stereo on each SID pair, you'll end up using 2x SSM2164 boards for octal VCA fun. For mono you could get away with mixing each SID pair and sending that to each VCA. But, please draw away. I've been meaning to do something of that sort, but OLED and PSU first... Burp! -
Yay for Galaga and other old-school shooters! And to BFG -
Zomg, that thing could control a mothership armada! May the gods of soldering and assembly smile upon you
