![](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2347-scaled.jpg\")
<\/a>Well, power works.
(Click for more SIDbox photos…)<\/center><\/p>\n
Well, the SIDbox PCBs<\/a> came in today, and thusly, I assembled one. Well, as much of one as possible… I’m still waiting for some more sockets to arrive tomorrow, and then I need to finish building a PIC programmer. But after that I will hopefully have a working prototype of a single board SID-based sound module.<\/p>\n For background, I’m using what are basically a bunch of different designs from the MIDIbox projects<\/a>, implemented by me on a single PCB. It will also run the MIOS software<\/a> which Thorsten Klose has so kindly shared with the world. The main project has a bunch of small ‘modules’ which can be wired together and fitted together in a case to make a synth of one type or another. Well, I wanted a specific type, build portions of a number of the different modules, so I made just that.<\/p>\n I’ve actually been thinking seriously about selling these as kits, and after asking Thorsten (TK) about it<\/a> in the MIDIbox Forum<\/a>, I’m seriously thinking about doing it. If I do this, I’ll be merging 5 or 6 of the MIDIbox modules (I can’t remember right now — but it’s a good bit more hardware than seen above) on a single PCB and sticking it in a single case. With my design it’ll be possible (just with the main PCB) to have 8 buttons, an LCD, and all the stuffs I mentioned before. I’m still not sure if I want to do this work, but… I may… We’ll see. :)<\/p>\n Anyway, this post was supposed to be about SIDbox (photo gallery retired)<\/em> photos, so I’ll link to some specific ones here:<\/p>\n · Mmm. SIDs. A MOS 6581, MOS 6581R3, and CSG 8580R5.<\/a> So, yeah. If I’m lucky I will have a working SID-based sound module either tomorrow or Saturday. If not, I’ll probably have a lot to learn… And I’ll be really upset with myself… We’ll see. For now, I’m pretty excited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, power works.(Click for more SIDbox photos…) Well, the SIDbox PCBs came in today, and thusly, I assembled one. Well, as much of one as possible… I’m still waiting for some more sockets to arrive tomorrow, and then I need to finish building a PIC programmer. But after that I will hopefully have a working\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-8232","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\/8232","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=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13397,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions\/13397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n· The nifty note sent by<\/a>
\n· 600dpi scans of the finished PCBs. (photo gallery retired)<\/em>
\n· Ahh, a nicely laid out array of six SIDbox PCBs.<\/a>
\n· Ooh, and the SIDbox PCBs even fit in the enclosure. They fit a little too well, but that’s all right.<\/a>
\n· Test fitting parts to be sure there won’t be any dimensional surprises when actually soldering. Everything looks good from here…<\/a>
\n· Well, the power supply works. I was getting a solid 5VDC and 12VDC, which should be ideal for a MOS 6580 SID.<\/a>
\n· The PCB with all parts fitted except for two sockets and all ICs.<\/a>
\n· The bottom side of the SIDbox PCB, where one can see a hardware bugfix. After I ordered the boards I found out about a potential problem, and the blue wire should resolve that.<\/a>
\n· The SIDbox PCB fitted with a PIC18F4620 to test on-board ICSP. It works.<\/a>
\n· A photo which may look familiar to those of you who liked the laser printed board layout plus parts photo from before…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
![the SIDbox PCBs<\/a> came in today, and thusly, I assembled one. Well, as much of one as possible… I’m still waiting for some more sockets to arrive tomorrow, and then I need to finish building a PIC programmer. But after that I will hopefully have a working prototype of a single board SID-based sound module.<\/p>\nFor background, I’m using what are basically a bunch of different designs from the MIDIbox projects<\/a>, implemented by me on a single PCB. It will also run the MIOS software<\/a> which Thorsten Klose has so kindly shared with the world. The main project has a bunch of small ‘modules’ which can be wired together and fitted together in a case to make a synth of one type or another. Well, I wanted a specific type, build portions of a number of the different modules, so I made just that.<\/p>\nI’ve actually been thinking seriously about selling these as kits, and after asking Thorsten (TK) about it<\/a> in the MIDIbox Forum<\/a>, I’m seriously thinking about doing it. If I do this, I’ll be merging 5 or 6 of the MIDIbox modules (I can’t remember right now — but it’s a good bit more hardware than seen above) on a single PCB and sticking it in a single case. With my design it’ll be possible (just with the main PCB) to have 8 buttons, an LCD, and all the stuffs I mentioned before. I’m still not sure if I want to do this work, but… I may… We’ll see. :)<\/p>\nAnyway, this post was supposed to be about SIDbox (photo gallery retired)<\/em> photos, so I’ll link to some specific ones here:<\/p>\n· Mmm. SIDs. A MOS 6581, MOS 6581R3, and CSG 8580R5.<\/a>\n· The nifty note sent by<\/a> along with some ridiculously generous SIDs<\/a>.\n· 600dpi scans of the finished PCBs. (photo gallery retired)<\/em>\n· Ahh, a nicely laid out array of six SIDbox PCBs.<\/a>\n· Ooh, and the SIDbox PCBs even fit in the enclosure. They fit a little too well, but that’s all right.<\/a>\n· Test fitting parts to be sure there won’t be any dimensional surprises when actually soldering. Everything looks good from here…<\/a>\n· Well, the power supply works. I was getting a solid 5VDC and 12VDC, which should be ideal for a MOS 6580 SID.<\/a>\n· The PCB with all parts fitted except for two sockets and all ICs.<\/a>\n· The bottom side of the SIDbox PCB, where one can see a hardware bugfix. After I ordered the boards I found out about a potential problem, and the blue wire should resolve that.<\/a>\n· The SIDbox PCB fitted with a PIC18F4620 to test on-board ICSP. It works.<\/a>\n· A photo which may look familiar to those of you who liked the laser printed board layout plus parts photo from before…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo, yeah. If I’m lucky I will have a working SID-based sound module either tomorrow or Saturday. If not, I’ll probably have a lot to learn… And I’ll be really upset with myself… We’ll see. For now, I’m pretty excited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, power works.(Click for more SIDbox photos…) Well, the SIDbox PCBs came in today, and thusly, I assembled one. Well, as much of one as possible… I’m still waiting for some more sockets to arrive tomorrow, and then I need to finish building a PIC programmer. But after that I will hopefully have a working\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-8232","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\/8232","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=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13397,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions\/13397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2342-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
![Mmm. SIDs. A MOS 6581, MOS 6581R3, and CSG 8580R5.<\/a>\n·](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2338-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
![The nifty note sent by<\/a> along with some ridiculously generous SIDs<\/a>.\n· 600dpi scans of the finished PCBs. (photo gallery retired)<\/em>\n· Ahh, a nicely laid out array of six SIDbox PCBs.<\/a>\n· Ooh, and the SIDbox PCBs even fit in the enclosure. They fit a little too well, but that’s all right.<\/a>\n· Test fitting parts to be sure there won’t be any dimensional surprises when actually soldering. Everything looks good from here…<\/a>\n· Well, the power supply works. I was getting a solid 5VDC and 12VDC, which should be ideal for a MOS 6580 SID.<\/a>\n· The PCB with all parts fitted except for two sockets and all ICs.<\/a>\n· The bottom side of the SIDbox PCB, where one can see a hardware bugfix. After I ordered the boards I found out about a potential problem, and the blue wire should resolve that.<\/a>\n· The SIDbox PCB fitted with a PIC18F4620 to test on-board ICSP. It works.<\/a>\n· A photo which may look familiar to those of you who liked the laser printed board layout plus parts photo from before…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo, yeah. If I’m lucky I will have a working SID-based sound module either tomorrow or Saturday. If not, I’ll probably have a lot to learn… And I’ll be really upset with myself… We’ll see. For now, I’m pretty excited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, power works.(Click for more SIDbox photos…) Well, the SIDbox PCBs came in today, and thusly, I assembled one. Well, as much of one as possible… I’m still waiting for some more sockets to arrive tomorrow, and then I need to finish building a PIC programmer. But after that I will hopefully have a working\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-8232","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\/8232","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=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13397,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions\/13397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2330-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
![Ooh, and the SIDbox PCBs even fit in the enclosure. They fit a little too well, but that’s all right.<\/a>\n·](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2343-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
![Test fitting parts to be sure there won’t be any dimensional surprises when actually soldering. Everything looks good from here…<\/a>\n·](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2345-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
![Well, the power supply works. I was getting a solid 5VDC and 12VDC, which should be ideal for a MOS 6580 SID.<\/a>\n·](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2346-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
![The bottom side of the SIDbox PCB, where one can see a hardware bugfix. After I ordered the boards I found out about a potential problem, and the blue wire should resolve that.<\/a>\n·](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2348-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
![The SIDbox PCB fitted with a PIC18F4620 to test on-board ICSP. It works.<\/a>\n·](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2349-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
![A photo which may look familiar to those of you who liked the laser printed board layout plus parts photo from before…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo, yeah. If I’m lucky I will have a working SID-based sound module either tomorrow or Saturday. If not, I’ll probably have a lot to learn… And I’ll be really upset with myself… We’ll see. For now, I’m pretty excited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, power works.(Click for more SIDbox photos…) Well, the SIDbox PCBs came in today, and thusly, I assembled one. Well, as much of one as possible… I’m still waiting for some more sockets to arrive tomorrow, and then I need to finish building a PIC programmer. But after that I will hopefully have a working\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-8232","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\/8232","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=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13397,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions\/13397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2350-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}