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.
Born, drew a lot, made video, made music on 4-track, then computer, more songwriting, met future wife, went to art school for video major, made websites, toured in a band, worked as web media tech, discovered electronics, taught myself electronics, blogged about DIY electronics, made web videos about electronics and made music for them … and I still do!
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