User:Costyn van Dongen

Interests:

• Electronics, microcontrollers, robotics, radio, photography, music

Work:

• Network engineer at Quanza Engineering in Amsterdam, working with Cisco and Juniper

Married, 2 kids

Current Projects

• Useless Machine
• High altitude balloon (HAB), launch date 19 august
• Sumobots

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

Others

• Pneumatic spud gun (legal)
• Water rocket

Home automation

• keyless entry with RFID or Dallas iButton
• Doorbell repeater system for in garden/shed