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“Walnut and Paper Drum Machine.” It sounds like the subject header from some shitty spam e-mail. But thankfully, this DIY project is both faux-meat product-free and very real.

So, here’s what you have to do. Steal a bunch of walnuts from your squirrely forest friends, grab a sheet a paper and a webcam, and head over to download the free drum machine software. Technically, you don’t have to use walnuts, but without them, this wouldn’t be much of a walnut drum machine, now would it?

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Since its release in 1984, the Roland TR-909 has since become the de facto drum machine for electronic dance music. Over on Flickr, user Firegroove took apart his TR-909 to try to fix it and documented the whole process. Never again will you see such ridiculous pictures of a huge circuit board.

If you look at the boards and all the wiring, circuits, etc., it’s kind of funny how all this stuff can be emulated by software perfectly. All you need is a sample kit featuring all the sounds in a TR-909 (or 808 if you’re feeling hip hoppish) and a software sequencer. Next thing you know, you’ll be making dance beats quicker than you can say ATB.

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