NickDelios

Wilba, thank you for making such a fantastic kit. :thumbsup: Anyhow, here are images of it after painting and mulling about. I only with the color turned out a bit more defined. I know a lad on here did post about some method of panel detailing that involved a syringe and melted plastic (I think). Eh? Oh, and I hope to do a brief review of the thing on YouTube in the next week or something. Cheers!

Good evening all, Embarrassingly, I made my first post on the boards asking a question which amounted to 'RTFM'. I'm pleased to say that after kicking myself in the shin, I quickly completed the sammichSID and I'd like to take a moment to spew off about the sammichSID as a 'kit as well as spam some images. sammichSID is only the second kit I've completed, the first being a Speak and Spell MIDI-KIT from HighlyLiquid. It's also something of a dream to me, as I've wanted to delve into a MidiBox project but always found it a daunting idea. After seeing a post about the project on Matrixsynth, I jumped and sent an email asking to be included in the next batch of orders. A few weeks later, a package crossed the Pacific island to be delivered by Santa to my workbench. I mounted the base PCB in my PCB holder and started planting resistors and IC sockets immediately. As soon as the sockets for the PIC and SID's were in place, I really felt like I was making progress. After reading the warnings on spacing the back panel items, I let out a sigh of relief when mine lined up satisfactory. Moving on to the control surface PCB, I originally dreaded doing the LED's. the bold-faced warnings for solder timing had me a bit on edge - I've worked with LED's before and dreaded damaging a single one. But like everything else in the kit, it went together wonderfully. I eagerly moved on to do a volt test, and came out very relieved when every joint passed. Taking note of the advice of installing the bank-sticks and SIDs after, I waited until my girlfriend came over so we could both watch the Sammich come to life. After the slight hiccup in progress that was my first post (ugh), I almost hit my head on the ceiling from jumping with excitement when I was able to get the sammichSID to show response to MIDI-IN. Eagerly dumping in the v2 rc34 firmware, installing the bank sticks, adding patches and subsequently installing SIDs was a breeze. Within mere minutes I had a functional sammichSID grasped between the arms of my PCB holder just spewing out wonderful sounds. Which brings me to a compliment for the case, and the whole design really - it's wonderful. As of right now, I haven't yet painted over the labels or removed any of the backing tape, but the way everything fits together is gorgeous. I can't wait to paint the labels, remove the backing tape and welcome a sexier sammichSID into 2010. Wilba, you produced a wonderful kit. For newbies like myself, it's a great entry point into the world of MidiBox. Your documentation and design is fantastic and the end result is beautiful and well worth the money. Thank you, Erik Tinberg

Good evening all, Everything (so far) has gone swimmingly with my sammichSID kit. When the display read 'Ready', I damn near shit my pants. Then I tried to send a new LCD message to the unit to no avail. The following is a Print-Screen of MIOS Studio's output. My MIDI setup is below: My JMI jumper is set correctly and I'm 200% sure my solder points are as awesome as cats-in-a-bag. Any help is -greatly- appreciated. Thx, Erik EDIT: I'm a moron and forgot to install the 6N138. Sorry.