Casio SK-1 MIDI Modification Update
August 21, 2006
First Layout
Well, there’s the first layout. I’ll check things over tonight / tomorrow and hopefully order the boards by tomorrow evening.
As only two are currently spoken for, I’m only going to order five. So, if you want one, speak up. Just so you know, I guess they’ll also work in the Casio SK-5.
Also, I received a confirmation email about the front and rear panels for the MIDIbox SID-NUXX and they should ship to me on the 28th. Woo!
Now, time to go home.
My friend Kris (atsiluth) also wants one, I spoke with him tonight.
Have you thought about posting to any of the circuitbending communities? I know people would eat them up.
That’s three then. :)
I don’t actually know of any of those communities… Care to point me to them?
If I’m going to sell them either stand-alone or as full-on kits I might want to get the software author’s permission first. Or maybe I’ll just write it up and provide everything which people need to order their own. (I don’t know if I want the hassle…)
This is the only one I am a member of right now, but it is pretty good!
If you are interested – circuitbending: http://community.livejournal.com/circuitbending/profile
Very Cool. I spent many hours over the last two days learning some of the basics of Eagle. I took a few days off for Deb’s birthday and we spent time in Ohio with Jen and Craig.
I have the newest free version. I figured it was good enough to learn the program with. I also found a Tube Library. My recent babbling about wanting to refresh my memory on Algerbra is because of my recent digging into tube circuit design. I have a couple future projects I would like to do. One is a high quality head phone amp and the second is a very high end phono preamp. Maybe we can get together someday and you can give me some Eagle pointers. I’m impressed with what you’ve been producing.
Thank you. :) I’m glad to hear it’s coming along well… I find Eagle to be one of those apps where you simply have to get over the hump of learning it, then you can churn things out. For what it’s worth, I did that today while at work, and in a bit of time spent sitting around after work fixing things.
I think the biggest problem you’ll run into with tube stuff is the physical size of components. The free version is a bit limited, and thusly I don’t know how much you’ll be able to fit on one board. Worst case I guess you could just jumper them edge to edge, though…
Anyway, yes. We should… There’s some odd things I came to understand about using Eagle which are just… quirky. But I guess that’s how all PCB software is. Or so I’m told.
Yes, I understand the size limits. I guess I’m planning on learning the software first. I’ve also got a few little things I can do. I can always upgrade when I need it.
The software was fun this weekend. I went through their 70 page tutorial and understand a few more things now.
I’ll bring the manual by and see if I can find a PDF for you. The included helpfile is just plain old wrong in some cases. Commands don’t detail all the arguments they can actually take, a few things don’t work as described, etc.