# Introduction

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This is a simple drum machine / loopstation.
It's made for three hand-wound solenoids mounted to a tambourine.
It is controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico on a custom PCB.

See [this blog post for some more context](https://www.xythobuz.de/lars.html).

[![assembled prototype](https://www.xythobuz.de/img/lars_3_small.jpg)](https://www.xythobuz.de/img/lars_3.jpg)