286 Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Day 5+ ;) My stuff on a carboard box has transformed into a fully working midibox. I call it the OOMbox 6581, my nickname is Oomiz. The sound is amazing! I tried feeding it the sidtune Rampert! It's one that pretty much tests every aspect of the sid-chip and I must have won the sid-lottery since my 6581 does exactly what it is supposed to.Anyway since I've written this thread to get help but also help others I want to give you newcomers a hint when connecting the DINX module. On the PCBs from smashtv, on the 10 header connectors, J3-J6, only the 10th pin is ground. NOT the 9th. This may be obvious for most people but I fooled myself and wasted quite some time figuring out why my buttons didn't work.About the buttons in my case, they are custom made by me since I couldn't find nice 1cm diameter buttons that are a bit soft but still tactile. I had a large bag of really long (20mm shaft) 6x6mm tactile switches so what I did was that I cut those short. Not something that I recommend, getting them equally long is tedious. Then I wired them up on a perfboard and put a device fot (the soft pads you put under stuff) in every hole of the fronpanel. Since the bottom of the pads are a bit larger than the hole they stay in the holes without actually attaching them with glue or anything to the switch shafts.The entire thing is built into a pac-tec KEU-10. It's more or less ready and has two banksticks, A0 for patches and A7 for ensembles. All I have to do now is figure out what I need a midibox for, I'm not a musician, but it sure was fun building it. Last step would probably be to paint the case, Oh and I might want to find a prettier encoder knob ;)Thanks to everyone helping out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labelwhore Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Lookin good!Hey, no reason you can't start your musical obsession now :)...annnnd off to MBOTW with this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucem Posted November 20, 2008 Report Share Posted November 20, 2008 I really like the look of this one... good job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
286 Posted November 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2008 Thanks for your kind words, and thanks for making it mbotw!Sadly I haven't got much time to play with it at the moment but every time I do I get this big smile on my face. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Very clean looking! I like it :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 thanks for making it mbotw!Heh, YOU did that, I just moved the post ;)Hey I'm curious about the LCD... It looks quite nice, and that combined with the separated 'blocks' for the characters, made me think maybe optrex... but it doesn't have the same backlight.... Maybe an older optrex? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
286 Posted November 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Hey I'm curious about the LCD... It looks quite nice, and that combined with the separated 'blocks' for the characters, made me think maybe optrex... but it doesn't have the same backlight.... Maybe an older optrex?I bought it from a Polish company called artronic on Ebay. Got it supercheap! Only thing with it is that the symbol "|" shows up as "12". It may be possible to change the charset somehow but I haven't looked into it since it really doesn't bother me.Here is the datasheet: http://www.artronic.pl/o_produkcie.php?id=651? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 It may be possible to change the charset somehow but I haven't looked into it since it really doesn't bother me.Thanks mate. Just FYI, you can't change the default charset, it's in ROM - but you can define custom characters. You would need a special driver which then uses the special chars instead of the standard ones. Nothing too tricky, but probably not worth it if it doesnt bother you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 There's no custom chars left in the sid v2 firmware. You could potentially repace one that's rarely used with "|" and just search/replace all occurances of that char in the source code. Shouldn't be too hard, a bit annoying to do but not hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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