What do soup cans, gum balls, and eggs have in common? Well, besides being round, they’ve all been used to trigger programmable drum machines:
The Drum Buddy
Triggered by light shining through holes in a large aluminum can.
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Bubblegum Sequencer
Triggered by colored gum balls placed on a grid.
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“Almost Certified”
Cumputer sequencer triggers hammers that hit various sized eggs… for some reason.
[quicktime]http://www.machineproject.com/kcain_bcrabtree/almostcertified/video/almostcertified.mov[/quicktime]