MIDIbox of the Week (MIDIbox SID of Bill)

[TK.]

An extraordinary MIDIbox SID made by Bill

More pictures of his DIY stuff can be found under

http://www.mylgd.com/public/?rep=.//Photo/Bill/diy

[d2k]

hehe, now that is off the hook! ;p very imaginative :)

[LO]

Is the receiver/handpiece the power switch?

Great recycling going on there :)

Kinda looks like you have fitted a caller ID display.

[Sephult]

Can you hear the sid in the handset?

Would be fun if you could actually hook the phone up and play sid songs over the phone line to your friends ;D

[pay_c]

Really cool design!  ;D

Would´ve never come to *such* an idea! Reeeeeaally cool idea!!

Can you make a photo of the inside?  ;)

[bill]

thank you !

I must take more photos, to see the 'inside', but i'm not sure this is very interesting, cause it's a 'simple' core module, a mos6581 board, and a minimal control surface. On the other hand, the 'phone box layout' is excelent, and the plastic is very thick and solid. (i recomend  ;))

I have another telephone like this, but a orange one, good old sixty style, so i must build another one (with a different chip), more fancy  ;D

The telephone do not work as a telephone anymore.

The sound do not go out of the handset. (yet ;)

But the handset mic is wired, so i can use it with my vocoder, then it's even more funny. The mic is nice, it produce kind of a good 'saturation', but need a 'phantom power supply'.

Here is a track where you can hear it, as the ring modulated SID (starting at 0'10), next to a atariST ym, C64 samples, and a bassStation : http://pierre.boquet.free.fr/mp3/electrochips.mp3

[julienvoirin]

salut mec

si tu veux j'ai un pur circuit qui fait alim 48v, ça coute genre 2 euros à faire, on alimente en 9v CC.

énorme ton téléphone ! il est mieux que l'orange et je t'imagine en train de chanter dans le combiné je me marre déjà :)

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[Lall]

Hi Bill,

Veeery nice concept and design, congratulations for the "baby"  ;)

Nice music too you're making.

Best regards,

Lall

[bill]

thanks, i'm glad you like my music :)

Here is it's little brother the 8581 !

(yes, it's very more simple, there's no control surface)

And here is another tune abusing the 8581 ;)

http://tragicule.free.fr/mp3/Blame_it.mp3 (no computing)

[moxi]

allo?...allo?...what a great box! ;-)

[kris]

love the telephone sid's