{"id":8323,"date":"2006-07-18T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/midibox-sid-nuxx-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:36","slug":"midibox-sid-nuxx-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/midibox-sid-nuxx-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MIDIbox SID-NUXX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_4403-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0><br \/>It works. Makes noises, menus work, etc.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>It works. All of it. Everything on the board. Except for one little snag (one part label is printed backwards) the whole thing works as designed.<\/p>\n<p>The input buttons, the LCD, the MIDI LEDs, the memory, all of it.<\/p>\n<p>The voltage regulators run a bit hot (~150\u00baF when the LCD is connected) when using the 12V SID. Using a 9V one instead should make things a bit better. I don&#8217;t like this, but there&#8217;s really no easy solution short of using an external switching power supply and redesigning the board. Which I&#8217;m not going to do. It&#8217;s well within tolerances, though.<\/p>\n<p>I think that next I&#8217;ll build a board to handle the 9V SIDs, then I&#8217;ll have two complete boards for myself. Then I&#8217;ll build either one or two enclosures. I&#8217;m also tempted to shove one into someplace interesting&#8230; Like a MIDI keyboard. :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It works. Makes noises, menus work, etc. It works. All of it. Everything on the board. Except for one little snag (one part label is printed backwards) the whole thing works as designed. The input buttons, the LCD, the MIDI LEDs, the memory, all of it. The voltage regulators run a bit hot (~150\u00baF when\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-8323","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\/8323","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=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13306,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions\/13306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}