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Mr. Braska at MidiBox HeadQuarters!

Mr. Braska reached MIDIbox HQ in Munich and was welcomed by Thorsten aka. TK with a traditional wheat beer and a nice midibox.org sticker as a present.

The little frog was very excited to sit on the famous original MIDIbox SID prototype that he only knew from pictures before:

He quickly jumped to one of his most favorite [...]

SubAtomicGlue’s SID

While searching for midibox SID stuff I stumbled upon Subatomicglue’s super-extensive build log. He has info on almost every aspect of making a SID synth. It follows the panel design of the original Midibox SID made by T.Klose and it is packaged inside a Commodore 64.

He has used a custom made panel (Made by [...]

Caniballizing the laughtop

What follows is the destruction of the laughtop. This is not for the faint of heart!

Braska is here still, helping with the hard stuff (posing and getting in the way). When I tell him “get the screwdriver” he always appears with a cocktail in his froggy hand, sipping.

There is a small, lo-fi speaker which [...]

SID Repackaging

Remember the babyBotte ? It started it’s life as a simple shoebox and then got upgraded to a package that is sturdy and useable with a jack for external PSU so I wouldn’t have to rely on batteries.

Same story about the Music from outer space WSG that got a serious upgrade and became [...]

A working SID Synth

The SID synth is working!

As I just bought a simple oscilloscope, wave shots follow..

The SID filter works by using two capacitors. I think it works by switching them on and off in sequence. However it works internally, you can experiment with the values of the capacitors. So to experiment without solder/desolder I put a pin [...]