{"id":8217,"date":"2006-05-02T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/02\/sidbox-update-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:26","slug":"sidbox-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/02\/sidbox-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SIDbox Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like I&#8217;ve identified a problem with the SIDbox layout. Per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midibox.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=5748.0\">this thread<\/a> I shouldn&#8217;t be using a stand-alone oscillator for the SID. Whoops. That means any finally assembled boards will have a jumper running from where the oscillator goes over to pin 18 of the PIC. Not a big deal. Won&#8217;t break anything, it&#8217;ll just work around a potential problem.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I asked the guy who writes and has designed the core of the MIDIbox stuff if he&#8217;d be all right with my selling these boards as kits. He had some suggestions, but he sounds pretty okay with it. I&#8217;m just not sure I wish to make the investment. The thread about that can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midibox.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=6648.0\">here<\/a> if you are interested.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m laying the board out again, and I&#8217;m going to be getting six prototype boards which should work well, but aren&#8217;t usable as kit boards.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the question is whether or not I should attempt to put this together as a kit. I&#8217;m thinking an initial (or single?) run of 50 would work well&#8230; I just wonder if I can afford it. And I still can&#8217;t answer the question of why I want to do it. It just seems like something fun to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like I&#8217;ve identified a problem with the SIDbox layout. Per this thread I shouldn&#8217;t be using a stand-alone oscillator for the SID. Whoops. That means any finally assembled boards will have a jumper running from where the oscillator goes over to pin 18 of the PIC. Not a big deal. Won&#8217;t break\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217","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=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13412,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions\/13412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}