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

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.

Current Projects

• Project Hyperion-2, launch date not yet set
  • Goals: video, still images
• Habanero-1, backup tracker on other balloon.
• Sumobots
• HAB Tracker Station
• Moving Timelapse Rig

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