UPDATE:<\/strong> I’ve just discovered that I seriously screwed up something on these PCBs. Basically, the switches are eternally pressed. I think I can fix it with some simple trace cutting, but I need to take a long look at it to be sure. Guh. I feel like an idiot. I must have somehow drawn the part wrong in EAGLE and then used it…<\/p>\n< sigh ><\/p>\n
I would swear that I checked it at least three times, too.<\/p>\n
This really bothers me. I think I’ll go eat a meal, pick up the front panel from ‘s house, then decide what needs to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDIbox SID-NUXX Front Panel PCB PCBs all milled and trimmed. I’m going to pick up the first front panel in something like two hours. If everything goes as planned, there will be a complete MIDIbox SID-NUXX sitting on my workbench tonight. < glee! > Then I’ll just have to place one more (rather pricey) order\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-8380","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\/8380","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=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13249,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions\/13249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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MIDIbox SID-NUXX Front Panel PCB<\/center><\/p>\n![Photo of the rear of the PCB showing how close the traces are to the edge of the board.<\/a>)<\/p>\nUPDATE:<\/strong> I’ve just discovered that I seriously screwed up something on these PCBs. Basically, the switches are eternally pressed. I think I can fix it with some simple trace cutting, but I need to take a long look at it to be sure. Guh. I feel like an idiot. I must have somehow drawn the part wrong in EAGLE and then used it…<\/p>\n< sigh ><\/p>\nI would swear that I checked it at least three times, too.<\/p>\nThis really bothers me. I think I’ll go eat a meal, pick up the front panel from ‘s house, then decide what needs to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDIbox SID-NUXX Front Panel PCB PCBs all milled and trimmed. I’m going to pick up the first front panel in something like two hours. If everything goes as planned, there will be a complete MIDIbox SID-NUXX sitting on my workbench tonight. < glee! > Then I’ll just have to place one more (rather pricey) order\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-8380","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\/8380","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=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13249,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions\/13249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mbsid_nuxx_fp_pcb_cutout_bottom-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}