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Suggestions for compact stereo sid construction please


commodoreeightyfour

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Hello,

I really like the small form factor of the sammichSID. Sadly, I did not get in to order a kit on time. I would like to build something similar, but I'm having difficulty designing an enclosure that would hold the core+ 2 sids + my optimized C64 power supply circuit. I have seen pictures of some very small mono/or stereo sid's on the blog, but they all seem to used a wall wart power supply. Could someone point me to a small box that someone has built using the optimized power supply? I don't want to copy it verbatim, but I'd be interested to see how the innards are laid out.

Also, is there a significant amount of noise added by using a wall wart type power supply?

Thanks

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* A wallwart doesn't add any noise if it's not a switchmode supply.

* If you can't find a decent case (Pactec PT-8 should work, as well as the aluminium profile style case I used for fnpSID) go the sammichSID route and have one made @ ponoko

* You will have a hard time making sth as small as sammichSID without a custom PCB as you need core8, DINx4, DOUTx4, bankstick, PSU and 2 SID modules in there.

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I really like the small form factor of the sammich sid. Sadly, I did not get in to order a kit on time.

You may have missed the "last" batch, but since I've got over 50 pre-orders, I will be doing another batch in February.

If you want something sooner, or you're keen on making your own CS and case, etc. I have a few sammichSID base PCBs spare.

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