Raspberry Pi Pico Powered Drum Machine

US Simple sample playback on ultra-portable Pico 27/06/25

A new issue of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine is out today, and it features a project from Phil King which teaches us how to play drum samples using a Raspberry Pi Pico. The article is heavily inspired by Arnov Sharma's project on Hackster which plays samples stored on an SD card through the DFMiniPlayer. Looks like fun, and all steps are there to follow and build yourself!

Read the full article here: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-powered-drum-machine/

About the author [midierror]: midierror is co-founder of Potato Audio, he makes nifty Max For Live devices, award-winning Sample Packs and hosts the 'midierror meets...' interview series speaking with all kinds of people working in sound & music.

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