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Playground Drum Machine

A wise man once said,

"Nothing sounds better than an Eight-O-Eight."

(That wise man was Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys.)

The 808 to which Ad-Rock was referring is the Roland TR-808 drum machine. Let's build a little Circuit Playground

Express tribute to the venerable 808! Instead of a full-blown drum pattern sequencer, we'll just focus on the machine's

pads which are used for finger drumming to play back sampled drum sounds.

We can use the capacitive touch pads on the Circuit Playground Express as triggers, and small .wav files for our drum

sounds!

First, download the .zip file below, which contains all of the drum samples we'll be using. Save the file to your desktop

or somewhere else easy to find, and then unzip it.

https://adafru.it/zHc

You can plug in your Circuit Playground Express, and then drag the drum files onto it. It shows up as the CIRCUITPY

drive.