We’re (Maurice and I) building one! I hope it works out well, so far it looks really neat and extremely basic. The “drums” are wood with a mousepad on glued on top, standing on a wooden pole that stands on a wooden base. The 2 drums in the middle are hopefully looking the best but are yet to be made. Their base is handcrafted and polished and rounded and owell. The electronics aren’t too hard we hope, some piezo buzzers, zenerdiodes and resistors and an arduino. Nothing too complicated right? We did run into a small problem: We need 7 analog inputs. We have 6. So the first version will probably have a digital basedrum. Owell.

Besides that we’ve (Maurice and I again) a arbitrary length number class, dubbed superint. Original huh? It’s efficient with the bytes and cycles, uses x86 ASM for all the instructions and gives the right answers. Currently support addition, substraction, multiplication, division and modulus. We’re making a version 2 with what we’ve learned so far which will have some more features. Stay tuned for the source, zlibbed we thinks.