Would be cool 'for the kids' to have a climbing/bouldering wall... (Or actually, I wanted one too). We hadd been thinking about how to make the blind wall we had in our garden a bit nicer. Plants wouldn't look too nice in winter, wasn't ideal too. So, a climbing wall perhaps? But, of course, nothing… read more

A multi-player game of Battleship, with a real-life component, that can be played through the a web interface and the Telegram messaging app: Player need to enter the code found at a location they need to visit or answers quiz question, through which they can earn bombs in the Battlefield g… read more

Early 2023 I got the idea to decorate the boring white walls of our chimney with wooden panels. After much inspiration, thinking, designing, convincing, buying, sawing, finishing and mounting, I finally finished this project in the winter of 2023-2024. TL;DR: the before and after … read more

The Jamboree On The Air, Radio and Internet is an annual event for my scout group of ~300 people. Lots of children, lots of scout leaders, lots of activities. To help kids find their next scheduled (it's hectic!) activity, I made an application where kids can scan a QR-code they get at the event's o… read more

Set player (2011) The Set card game is about finding a 'set' of cards that satisfy some constraint. With some old-school (pre deep learning) computer vision, I made an application that does this for you, based on a picture. read more

RoboCup@Home with TechUnited Since 2011, I've been involved in RoboCup@Home, as a hobby, mostly through the team of TU Eindhoven: TechUnited. In 2019, TechUnited won the world cup with our robot HERO, a Toyota HSR robot. Before, we've used the custom-built AMIGO robot, with which we've reached seve… read more

Woodworking Lately I've been building some more stuff for our home. First a pillow box for the garden and also a giraffe-shaped cabinet for my son: read more

A ROS 2 interface for Neato vacuum robots, written in the Rust programming language. It builds on the neato_rust library I wrote and ros2_rust. (source on GitHub) read more

A short project programming ABB robots for an induction hardening line at Sabo Boxtel — one of my first jobs working with industrial robots on my own. I programmed industrial robots before in an internship, but setting up the entire system, with pneumatics, valves, I/O and controlling the hardening … read more