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 * Card
 * Sugru (or some other modelling material)
 * Electrical tape
+* Plastic drinking straw
+* Pencil
 
 
 ## Software requirements:
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 * IDE developer environment for Arduino
 * Py Serial library
 
+
+## Useful links:
+
+* [Pictures](http://bit.ly/codeclubminiband) 
+
+
 ## Drum Kit
 
 ### 1. Make your drums
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 Look at the picture for an example.
 
 
-### 3. Set up in Scratch 
+### 3. Progam the Arduino
+
+Find the appropriate code from the respository and upload to your Ardunio board.
+
+
+### 4. Set up in Scratch 
 
 Find four different drum sounds (or whatever sounds you'd like your drums to make!). Upload the sounds to Scratch.
 
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 ### 2. Connect the circuit
 
+The potentiomater strip adjusts resistance, so you will need to feed it some electricity.
+Run +5V into one of the strip’s outer pins, and ground into the other outer pin.
+It doesn’t matter which way around you connect these, but it will affect which the direction
+the fretboard runs (high and the top, low at the bottom or vice-versa).
+
+Signal will come from the centre pin, so connect that to one of your analogue inputs and you should be good to go.
+
+### 3. Set up in Scratch
+
+
+
+## Maracas
+
+### 1. Make your maracas
+
+Cut 2 short lengths of drinking straw for your maraca handles. 
+Using Sugru (or other modelling material), make 2 maraca heads by rolling it up into balls.
+Push the maraca heads onto the straws and mold into a maraca shape.
+Connect lengths of wire to the connectors of the 2 tilt sensors and then push each sensor into a straw until it presses into the Sugru.
+Leave the Sugru to set.
+
+
+### 2. Connect the circuit
+
+Connect the +5V port on the Arduino board to one of the pins on the tilt switch (it doesn't matter which way round).
+Connect the other pin to an empty digital input on the board. 
+
+
+### 3. 
+
 
 ## Pull-down Resistors