Q: How many drummers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: Twenty: one to screw in the bulb, and nineteen to insist that Neil Peart would have done it better.

Okay, okay, that’s a very lame way of introducing a neat little college design project, a MIDI-controlled drum robot called P.E.A.R.T. No, it’s not a drum machine–it’s a machine that plays the drums.

I bet it can’t play “The Rhythm Method,” though.

Credit for the link to Slashdot; blame for the bad light bulb joke to a /. commenter…