{"id":8359,"date":"2006-08-02T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/02\/front-panel-express\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:42","slug":"front-panel-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/02\/front-panel-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Panel Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops. Someone from Front Panel Express just called to tell me that <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fpd_rearpanel_v1_0.png\">my design for the MIDIbox SID-NUXX rear panel<\/a> I had drawn the slots in a manner which caused some problems with the milling. One of their engineers fixed the drawing and re-cut a new end panel, but they wanted to tell me that in the future the drawing should be done a bit differently. <\/p>\n<p>(The problem was that I drew the angled slots by taking a milled hole, slanting the sides 45\u00b0, and making the corner radius that of the tool. In the future I should draw a line and rotate it 45\u00b0 instead.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops. Someone from Front Panel Express just called to tell me that my design for the MIDIbox SID-NUXX rear panel I had drawn the slots in a manner which caused some problems with the milling. One of their engineers fixed the drawing and re-cut a new end panel, but they wanted to tell me that\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-8359","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\/8359","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=8359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13270,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359\/revisions\/13270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}