I bet you are also impressed I can route a board and solder it in less than 10 minutes! 😅

@@weirdboyjim Well, I have experience with Eagle and Altium, but I never managed to move my mouse pointer as fast as you do...

Couldn't agree more!

Thanks Matt! I'm glad I added those volume led's!

Thanks twobox! Glad you are enjoying it!

You and me both! Although big breath hold is powering on after I've added something new!

Hope it doesn't disappoint.

The reflow process still feels like magic to me!

Glad you are finding it interesting! adding a noise channel shouldn't bee too tough, good luck!

Thanks! Good to hear you are getting so much out of them. I'll do my best to live up to it!

Hope you like it!

Good luck Frank! I'll be dipping into this series from time to time, it's not a high priority though.

I had the same idea after I ordered it!

Glad you like them!

Thanks a lot!

Thanks George.

I have more plans for projects than I'll ever be able to complete, no risk of running out.

@weirdboyjim love to hear it! Do you have any plans to license a build it yourself kit when this project is done? I would love to build this with my cousin when he's a little older.

Thanks David!

I've seen that as well, but easier said than done when it comes in a syringe type dispenser.

I find little things like sleep quality the night before has a big influence

Glad you are enjoying it! I'll do a power test again in a few videos when I have a bit more on pcb. I want to try some code variation's as well for that.

Great thanks I'm guessing the leds will be drawing most of your current I would love to hear what's next in the pipeline for this project after audio is all done

Woo!

I thought my videos are entirely blooper real? 😅

You could absolutely do something like that. The simplest way to do it for a circuit like this would be to have a fifo queue of register sets with a time index attached.

@@weirdboyjim Im actually talking about a software solution, not a hardware solution. Although having this implemented in hardware would be really cool, considering your processor doesnt have any interrupts, it would be really cool if it could play nice audio in addition to games.

@@wChris_how do you get from notes to samples? A queue in RAM like a tracker on PC? Or do you mean the way they work on Amiga? Hardware for wavetables. Or DSP like on SNES?

Agree that a seperate clock would allow for more flexability, even if was just to design the ability for each module requiring clocks to maybe have a jumper to switch between a central / bus clock and maybe a external inputed clock for each module its fed to? maybe something thats easy to allow for when designing next backplane?

Hmm, I've been looking at a lot of old circuits that do a lot with reusing clock signals. If I had thought about it in advance I would have put a crystal socket on that temporary backplane so it could run it temporarily as a separate module. Would you be happier if I put the crystal for all the peripherals on all the backplane for them?

@@weirdboyjim oh im good with whatever route take, just was thinking with where you said about the clocks being shared and common that if ever wanted to change one in future for whatever reason that may be that would just give the flexability to route specific clocks where needed and also from my previous experience with shared clocks that if the devices connected werent individualy buffered / isolated that 1 board / chip attached going bad can sometimes pull the clock line on rare occasions and made diagnosing more lengthy than needed, my above instance was a really odd one not involving a failed chip but turned out to be a instance of the crystal not oscillating properly becuase the caps on it in that batch of boards where so tighty in tune that the crystal wasnt able to establish its initial instabailty to start, and was solved with putting slightly differnt valued load capcitors 1 at 22pf and 1 at 33pf..... odd fix to surgest but went from batch failure going from 15/100 down to 1 in 200. Slightly off topic so sorry for the long reply but just thinking of the size of board and the length of the tracks carrying the clocks that it could be benefit to multiple osillators closer to use like on a specific module may help with reducing crosstalk and interfearance.

​@@weirdboyjim In hindsight... It's James child, I would let him cook

@@weirdboyjim yeah, on the old 8-bitters the clock drove both the video signal as well as the bus clock, and everything run off of that.

I need to spend some time experimenting with the different sounds I can get out of it. For instruments I can only really tweak the ADSR envelope, I have a need to see what I can do in terms of percussion.

The hot plate is getting more consistent results, I'm also worried about temperature control. The hot air can overheat things easily. Ideally I'd be using a reflow oven but It's really tough to get good footage of the solder flow.

@@weirdboyjim excellent explanation of the hot air issue, thx!.

It all started when a visitor told me “Yer a Coder James, ‘an’ a thumpin’ good’un, I’d sat, once yeh’ve been trained up a bit.”

What bit are you referring too? Once I plugged the PCB in it was just some hook up errors.

@@weirdboyjim you had some sort of sync module to sync the audio with the rest computer

I'm not sure if my Audio circuit is worth!

It was unlisted until today.

@@weirdboyjim Ahh, that'd explain it. Good to see you back!