Well, i understand about the soldering errors, the islands and all that, but i got curious about the osciloscope, here in my coutry they’re a little expensive, and, what are the caracteristics of a good osciloscope?
Well quite frankly I don’t think you need one, unless you have a really good grasp of circuit design and signal flows. (Univerity education level grasp.) I don’t think most people building midiboxes have one.
And, another thing, is there any circuit board that i can assemble, so i can test my IC’s?
And, it would be interesant to make it plugged on the USB, so the computer could test it, is it possible?
In theory, this would be possible. In practice it makes more sense to get a core kit etc. and go from there.
Well quite frankly I don’t think you need one, unless you have a really good grasp of circuit design and signal flows. (Univerity education level grasp.) I don’t think most people building midiboxes have one.
forget about the scope. I have one, but an analog one, I only needed it to debug analog circuits like tape machines etc. , for digital circuits it’s useless. Maybe I can see if there is something switching or not, but to track what excatly is happening, you would need a digital scope or a extension device/board to connect to the PC, where you could record the action. and then, you would need the knowledge about the protocoll going on etcetc.
keep it simple, just build a simple MIDI-Box with a core and some DIN’s / DOUT’s or so and check the stuff out. I promise you will not need a scope for that.
forget about the scope. I have one, but an analog one, I only needed it to debug analog circuits like tape machines etc. , for digital circuits it’s useless. Maybe I can see if there is something switching or not, but to track what excatly is happening, you would need a digital scope or a extension device/board to connect to the PC, where you could record the action. and then, you would need the knowledge about the protocoll going on etcetc.
keep it simple, just build a simple MIDI-Box with a core and some DIN’s / DOUT’s or so and check the stuff out. I promise you will not need a scope for that.
Thanks for all your help, i’m going to study a little, and try to make something ^^
I hope that it works good, because of my impossibility of buying kits.
Hey Gustavo, I’m from Brasil too (found it better to keep typing in english so everyone can understand)
I’ve desided to build my own from scratch too, the only thing is that I’m not sure about what PIC burner to buy, I’ve seen that there is even some brazilian ones, much cheeper, and they seam quite nice, but still don’t know if they would do the job.
Have you started it already? I know that there is at least one other member from Brasil, since there was a SID chipping to here from Wilba’s… maybe that guy knows better.
Hey Gustavo, I’m from Brasil too (found it better to keep typing in english so everyone can understand)
I’ve desided to build my own from scratch too, the only thing is that I’m not sure about what PIC burner to buy, I’ve seen that there is even some brazilian ones, much cheeper, and they seam quite nice, but still don’t know if they would do the job.
Have you started it already? I know that there is at least one other member from Brasil, since there was a SID chipping to here from Wilba’s… maybe that guy knows better.
Hey, man, sorry for the delay in the answering =(
But here am i! Well, now i’m studying the USB protocol, i’m trying to figure out uses for it, in fact, i’ll use USB for my MIDI Controllers, then i guess they will work well.
However, i’m most interested in developing something with you, do you have an MSN account? we can chat and know what everyone of us think exactly.
