Sasha Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 This is my latest creation. You all know what I modified. :) Not completely finished as I need to wait Saturday to buy DIN connectors.Mechanical counter will be put back in place and power LED needs to be connected. Leaver of mechanical buttons are used to activate micro switches mounted at the same button holder plate that is cut out of the rest of the mechanics. Doors are swapped with piece of "smoked" transparent acrylic that is masked at the back and rest is sprayed with black paint. Only masked center for display is left clear. Writings are engraved and filled with acrylic paint. I add 4 hex screws more for aesthetically reasons than even they are holding the door against the rest of the casing. I need to think of some name for it to add it between door and buttons, so if you have some cool name for it in your mind you are welcome to propose it. Or I`ll call it just Data SID...Here are few pix... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLightX Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 "Press Play" would be a nice name ;Dor else something involving the original type number of the datasette, that's 1530. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted August 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 "Press Play" don`t sounds much like name to me, but it would be really cool as a sticker on it. I thought of adding it on LCD bootscreen. About the 1530... well, I already have 6581 on door, so it will be too much of noumbers. Thank you for your proposition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 You're awesome. That's Awesome. Awesome. :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLightX Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 "Press Play" don`t sounds much like name to me, but it would be really cool as a sticker on it. I thought of adding it on LCD bootscreen. About the 1530... well, I already have 6581 on door, so it will be too much of noumbers. Thank you for your proposition.I was referring to the C64 term PRESS PLAY ON TAPEadding that to the bootscreen would be quite cool ;)I have enough problems thinking up names for my own projects, let alone thinking of names for others. Why don't you just let it as is, 6581 is nice enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTE Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Yeah Sasha, U are the recycling God ! ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted August 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Thank you guys, I`m trying...About the name.. well, I usually have no problem to think of name, but I see some super-cool names or nicks other think of all the time, so thought maybe other would name it better one. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogy Rev Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 That is an excellent effort! I'm in the middle of something similar myself but using the 1541 as a case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seppoman Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Congrats Sasha, nice one :)Would look cool together with my disk drive :)http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=4873.0Seppoman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted August 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Thanks Sepp. Der Brat is yours... one of the olders SIDs around. :) I was looking for drive like yours at flea market after I saw how it can looks good, but I had no luck finding one. I found one from Atari, made whole out of plastic but I dont like it so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 I say put your name on it Sasha! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted August 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Oh man, no... I`m modest. It would be too much... I just made nice case mod, nothing more... what is under the hood is what counts.If you look with recycling eyes, inspiration comes easily. But, often recycling makes something looks trashy, like my Woody synth which is made that way deliberately, but personally I prefer something much finer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaicen Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Dammit!! That's exactly what I had planned to do, now you've beaten me to it! Actually, I couldn't find a cheap enough Datasetted, so i've been putting it off, you know how it goes ;)Really nice job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted August 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Sorry for being first. I thought of that long time ago, and it was strange to me nobody did it. So, I thought, It is final time to do it... ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAncientOne Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 fantastic Sasha.You are now officially "Lord of Recycle".Using the 'piano keys' like that is both elegant and witty . I love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLP Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 you are AMAZING!! :oYou should take a picture of your whole MB equipment Xirod, right? omg I love that font :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilba Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Excellent work, yet again.I challenge you to make the mechanical counter show the patch number! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted August 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Thank you all, very much. I didn`t expected you will like it that much....Lord of Recycle I`m honored Mike!I challenge you to make the mechanical counter show the patch number!I wanted to use bourns hollow encoder and connect it with belt to the counter, just for fun, but I gave up because I didnt like the quality of that encoder very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaicen Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 If you could interface one of those vintage LED watches (made by commodore) that come up on ebay, and get that to show patch numbers, or menu values as you turn the encoder, you would be the king of everything in my view ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ris8_allo_zen0 Posted August 2, 2007 Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 Sasha you're a GENIUS!! :DI love that "Non-Stop" marker...What about "Da-SID-sette" ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted August 2, 2007 Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 I love that "Non-Stop" markerYeh that's my favourite part too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha Posted August 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 Thank you guys. I love non-stop marker myself, and whenever I look at this synth I hear Kraftwerk in my head. Nice association. :)I think for name I will go something like DATA SID, or LOAD!@JaicenIntegrating commodore watch instead of mechanical counter would be really cool, but even if I could do it, those watches are pretty expensive and would be really bad to kill just for that. C64 cannot do much useful things today, but watch is always useful, especially if it`s geeky commodore watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaicen Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 True, I hear you all the way there. I'm a sucker for conserving old stuff, but I think it would be really cool all the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLP Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 what about"Non-Stop-SID" ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAncientOne Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 @JaicenIntegrating commodore watch instead of mechanical counter would be really cool, but even if I could do it, those watches are pretty expensive and would be really bad to kill just for that. C64 cannot do much useful things today, but watch is always useful, especially if it`s geeky commodore watch.I've still got a few LED calculator displays in 4 digit modules, if you want to try one of them. You could cheat an use one of the self scan 4 character LED displays that HP or Siemens did.Might look fairly cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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