While exploring the minimalist limits of what constitutes a 'drum machine', Eric Archer built these pared down percussion circuits with built in sequencers. The boards use only 2 chips (opamp + CD4089) and synch with eachother over infrared - quite simply, awesome. Read more about them on Eric's blog.
Minimal drum machines
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