Bankstick PCB

[Napalmtree]

Howdy, almost at the halfway point with the Step C build, but I noticed mikes shop doesn't work where I am and there seems to be no bankstick prefab PCBs anywhere. Is everyone just making them out of blank boards and soldering the wiring to IC sockets or what is the recommended method of build? I couldn't find any other topics on this specific thing.

[Brathering]

I've build the banksticks direktly like seen @ucapps.de -> Bankstick (Eprom <-> Sub-D) without any PCB, works great! ,-)

Edited July 3, 2012 by Brathering

[m00dawg]

I designed a board and had it made at BatchPCB. Before that, I just wired them to a protoboard, yep. The board layout is really simple so you could probably make your own. You're welcome to mine, although I haven't looked at it in a while. I had one issue with Batch where my ground-plane didn't connect when it should have (specification mismatch probably on my part) but I recommend using DorkBot PDX now for one-off boards.

[Acul]

Hello:)

[TwoCubed]

Hi there!

If anybody still is interested, I have made a layout for a perforated board with solderpads.

I have no idea if this will work, I just made this while I'm waiting for my shipment to arrive ;)

I made this with a program called DIYLC 3.7.0 Beta. You might want to flip the image vertically for soldering.

If anyone sees any mistakes, please let me know. I'm really pretty much new to this and have limited time for private projects due to being in the final phase of my studies :(

[ytsestef]

That diagonal line beneath IC3 is going to be difficult to solder...

[technobreath]

I have eagle files on a rather compact bankstick x 8 board if u or any other are interested. I can mail em on request - just leave a PM. ;)

[TwoCubed]

Yeah, there's not much space for that diagonal trace, but I'll try it anyway. I want to make it look somewhat like this:

If I can't get it right, I'll just use some isolated wire.

[ytsestef]

You're using wires, I see. It can be done that way.

I made mine using solder from pad to pad, like this:

[TwoCubed]

I finished it :)

I think it came out pretty good actually.

click

[zephyrin]

Hello

I have bought from Mikes Elektronikseite a bankstick PCB (Bankstick - Pertinax) but i don't found any picture for explain how to solder it ?

[TwoCubed]

I don't know how the bankstick PCB looks like. I'm guessing it is made for 8 ICs to fit. If that's the case just mount the sockets for the ICS, solder them on and stuff them... Just refer to the diagram somewhere on ucapps, it's pretty straight forward.

[zephyrin]

you can see it here

My link

[rosch]

there's not much to solder just make sure you got the ics in the right direction. besides them it's just the header / connection wires.

[nILS]

<broken-record>offsite doco bad</broken record>

[tomtiki]

Is there any US supplier of bankstick PCBs? I could order from mikes but shipping is kind of steep. My hand soldering skills are pretty terrible.

If we can get a number of people that need them, I could make a bulk buy from Mikes to keep the shipping costs down.

--tom

[m00dawg]

Is there any US supplier of bankstick PCBs? I could order from mikes but shipping is kind of steep. My hand soldering skills are pretty terrible.

You can always pick a design mentioned above and have it fabbed at Oshpark (DorkBot). Rather cheap for what you get and really good quality. They even except Eagle files directly so you can pretty much grab a design and send it directly to them without even needing EagleCAD (but you really should get board layout software at some point if you're serious about MidiBox).

[ilmenator]

...(but you really should get board layout software at some point if you're serious about MidiBox).

On these occasions I always recommend people to take a look at KiCad, because it is open source and does not have the nasty size limitation of the free EAGLE version.