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== Finished Projects == | == Finished Projects == | ||
Revision as of 15:33, 10 September 2016
Interests:
- Electronics, microcontrollers, robotics, radio, photography, music
Work:
- Network engineer at Quanza Engineering in Amsterdam, working with Cisco and Juniper
Finished Projects
- Useless Machine
- Project Hyperion-1 High altitude balloon, launch date 19 august. 37.5KM altitude reached. Payload retrieved, camera malfunctioned on launch unfortunately.
- HAB Launch, done!
- Habanero-1, backup tracker on other balloon.
- Bluetooth RS232 dongles
Current Projects
- Sumobots
- HAB Tracker Station
- Moving Timelapse Rig
- HAB Launch 2 - what to do with a leftover balloon
- Pico Trackers - really really lightweight tracking hardware
Future Project Wishlist
Robots
Easy
- Photophile
- Line follower
Medium
- Yellow Drum Machine
- RC drift car http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/the-latest-in-hobby-robotics-17.html
Difficult
- UAV glider, returns to base after burst of HAB
- Robot vision, something with RPi as robot controller
- Robot Wars type remote control combat robot
- 3D Spinning LED ball
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO2-tqoyGik
- http://www.sleepringen.nl/miniatuur.html
- http://www.adafruit.com/products/736
- ebay, zoek op slip ring 6 wires (bijv)
Others
- Pneumatic spud gun (legal)
- Water rocket
- Giant vortex cannon
- Giant bubbles
- Non newtonian fluids (maizena/subwoofer)
- Double periscope to widen stereo effect (not sure what it's called)
Home automation
- keyless entry with RFID or Dallas iButton
- Doorbell repeater system for in garden/shed