PE 1978 Drum

Maker	Johansen Engineering
Type	Drum voice module from a January 1978 Practical Electronics article
Mounting	Mixed
Width	—
License	Proprietary (No licence published on this repo)
Difficulty	🔥 SMD (0805)

Clone of Practical Electronics January 1978 drum synthesiser. Base board plus a faceplate board. The repo keeps a first faceplate gerber marked WRONG alongside the corrected one.

Documentation

• Fabrication files (PCBA-ready)

Links

• Source / files on GitHub
• Maker page

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This is a third-party open-source design, listed here as a build reference. Specs are researched from public sources; check the source repo and store for the current BOM, panel, and revision before ordering parts. Corrections welcome.

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