{"id":8294,"date":"2006-07-02T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/02\/midibox-sid-nuxx\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:33","slug":"midibox-sid-nuxx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/02\/midibox-sid-nuxx\/","title":{"rendered":"MIDIbox SID-NUXX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/midibox_sid-nuxx_inprogress.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/47207-10\/midibox_sid-nuxx_inprogress.png\" height=418 width=640 border=0><\/a><br \/>MIDIbox SID-NUXX PCB (In Progress&#8230;)<br \/>(Click for 300dpi version.)<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ah. It&#8217;s finally coming along. I&#8217;ve redrawn the schematic <em>(image no longer available)<\/em> and laid out the board. Now comes the few days of tweaking and polishing and validating that everything seems to be right. Then&#8230; The scary part. That is, the day when I plunk down $80 or so to have five of those boards made. And hopefully I&#8217;ll have done everything right and they&#8217;ll work.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. It&#8217;s coming along well. I&#8217;ve also got all of the basic parts here for the front panel, so I can begin laying that out. That will take a slightly different approach, because I have to fit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crystalfontz.com\/products\/2002a-color\/index.html#CFAH2002ARMIJP\">this LCD<\/a>, a rotary encoder (or two buttons), six buttons, and two LEDs in the front panel of something about the size of an external hard drive enclosure. Oh, and build a simple board so it can all be connected with a few simple cables.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t tell, yes, I&#8217;m looking forward to it. I really like doing this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIDIbox SID-NUXX PCB (In Progress&#8230;)(Click for 300dpi version.) Ah. It&#8217;s finally coming along. I&#8217;ve redrawn the schematic (image no longer available) and laid out the board. Now comes the few days of tweaking and polishing and validating that everything seems to be right. Then&#8230; The scary part. That is, the day when I plunk down\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-8294","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\/8294","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=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13335,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions\/13335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}