SIDbox v1.2 — Boards Ordered
SIDbox PCB Layout v1.2
(Click for SIDbox Gallery…)
Well, I did it. I just submitted an order with PCBFABEXPRESS for six PCBs made to the board layout seen above. US$78 for the boards and $15 shipping, and I should have them some time next week. I also placed an order with Mouser for the ‘new’ PICs (PIC18F4620), the parts for the new MIDI input / output handling (the IIC MIDI Module as opposed to straight off the PIC), and the stuff for a PIC programmer I’m piecing together.
With any luck I’ll have a working SIDbox prototype by the time I head off to the UK. This will be nice. If everything is as I hope, from here on out I’ll just have to etch one more PCB and everything after this will be soldering and assembly. Well… Except for the design of the rear panel for the case, but that won’t happen until I’m certain that I have a functioning board / synth.
Oh, I just remembered that I also need to pick up a USB to MIDI adapter… Hrm. Okay, have to find one of those. Still, things are coming along nicely.
This weekend I headed up to the northern Lower Pennisula (of Michigan) to visit my grandparents and meet up with
I guess tonight I’ll just go and try to acquire some PCB etchant from Radio Shack. Then I’ll confirm / finalize this PCB design for the PIC programmer, etch it, and… That’ll probably be the whole evening.