{"id":8215,"date":"2006-05-01T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/sidbox-v1-2-boards-ordered\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:26","slug":"sidbox-v1-2-boards-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/sidbox-v1-2-boards-ordered\/","title":{"rendered":"SIDbox v1.2 &#8212; Boards Ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sidbox_pcb_1_2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sidbox_pcb_1_2.png\" height=327 width=640 border=0><\/a><br \/>SIDbox PCB Layout v1.2<br \/>(Click for SIDbox Gallery&#8230;)<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, I did it. I just submitted an order with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcbfabexpress.com\">PCBFABEXPRESS<\/a> 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 &#8216;new&#8217; PICs (PIC18F4620), the parts for the new MIDI input \/ output handling (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucapps.de\/mbhp_iic_midi.html\">IIC MIDI Module<\/a> as opposed to straight off the PIC), and the stuff for a PIC programmer I&#8217;m piecing together.<\/p>\n<p>With any luck I&#8217;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&#8217;ll just have to etch one more PCB and everything after this will be soldering and assembly. Well&#8230; Except for the design of the rear panel for the case, but that won&#8217;t happen until I&#8217;m certain that I have a functioning board \/ synth.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I just remembered that I also need to pick up a USB to MIDI adapter&#8230; Hrm. Okay, have to find one of those. Still, things are coming along nicely.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I headed up to the northern Lower Pennisula (of Michigan) to visit my grandparents and meet up with <lj user=radiation88> for dinner. I also went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/slbe\/\">Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore<\/a> (and received a mighty sunburn) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigandnr.com\/parksandtrails\/ParksandTrailsInfo.aspx?id=453\">Hartwick Pines State Park<\/a>. Photos from each are forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>I guess tonight I&#8217;ll just go and try to acquire some PCB etchant from Radio Shack. Then I&#8217;ll confirm \/ finalize this PCB design for the PIC programmer, etch it, and&#8230; That&#8217;ll probably be the whole evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIDbox PCB Layout v1.2(Click for SIDbox Gallery&#8230;) 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 &#8216;new&#8217; PICs\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13414,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions\/13414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}