Worklog Midibox #2
So, here's the beginning of the story about my MB-6582 MidiBox. As pictures say more than 1000 words, I've added as much pictures as possible 
April 14, 2009
Still quite empty
On the 14th of April, the board still was quite empty, just a few resistors inserted. The soldering had begun. 
Bent leads
At the bottom you can see how I bent all the leads, just before cutting and soldering them.
Check out those shiny resistor-bridges!
Just adding some more resistors...
Voltage regulators
Voltage regulators in place. As you can see, the IC-sockets, headers, DIN-sockets and the power-switch also have been placed already.
April 18, 2009
8 pieces of the 6582 SID chip
Received my SID-chips! Hooray! Those chips will eventually actually synthesize the sound
Capacitors, the lot of 'em
Caps in all shapes and sizes
Caps soldered to the board
And there they are soldered
Great, enough backlogging for today. Expect more soon
Worklog Midibox #1
So, after collecting a lot of bits and pieces, reading a lot of documentation I finally started building my midibox.
You might think: "what on earth is a MidiBox?". Well, that's pretty well explained at the Wiki of midibox.org
I'm making a MidiBox SID.
To be precise the MB-6582, which is a MidiBox built around (up to) 8 SID-chips. A SID-chip is the built-in sound module in the Commodore 64 (amongst others).
Probably I won't use the standard black casing, but build my own from UV-reactive "plexiglass" (Acrylic glass or poly(methyl methacrylate)).
What it should do eventually:
MIDIbox SID V2 Bassline Demo #3 c64 from Thorsten Klose on Vimeo.
I've done quite a lot of it already, so I'll be backlogging real soon
Blogs come and blogs go
Actually, I wasn't planning on having a blog. Then a friend of mine showed me how well WordPress works, and I quite liked it. Thought I might give it a go. I'll post my worklog on my midibox here, some small Debian HOW-TO's as well as some tech-related stories.
Comments are highly appreciated