On my recent trip to Germany I had the chance to meet Stephan Schmitt (founder of Native Instruments) who is working with Daniel Tzschentke at the newly founded Nonlinear Labs. Some wonderful instruments will be coming from that team soon, but I found great fascination in one of Daniel’s student projects called Stekgreif. It’s a modular controller based on Lego bricks. More info on this an Daniel’s other projects can be found here.