Friday, October 10, 2008

It lives!


Well I wired up the non negative contrast LCD and hooked it up and bingo! Loaded on some LCD test apps and we were away.
WIred up another ribbon cable to connect the SID module and then a power cable for the sid module and realised that the placing of the power connectors on the optimzed power supply board werent.... optimal... so resoldered the headers into a more useful configuration.
connected the SID module to power and the Core module and powered it up. Tested the power comming to the SID IC socket and it 8.98v, which is pretty much perfect. Wired up an audio out socket and connected that to the SID
Popped in the SID module and uploaded the Sid test software, powered it on and there we go, a pretty high pitched saw wave.
Uploaded the Midibox SID software and rebooted. Using the Midi Keyboard in MIOS studio the midibox SID is working perfectly!
I dont have the EEPROMs for the bankstick yet so theres only one patch available and I dont have the rotary encoders for the control surface as yet so its pretty limited but the base is functioning !

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