WELCOME!
Welcome to the world of engineering: a pioneering place where the sky is the limit, ideas become reality, and the welfare of society comes first. The aim of this website is to inspire young engineers, to encourage them, and in particular to make sure they have a really strong grounding in mechatronics. Fundamental concepts will be explained based on different projects I did. That way, I can immediately show you a practical application of the theory and you won't get too bored. The following two links will respectively bring you to an overview of all my projects and a list of all treated topics. You can already discover my greatest projects below. If you'd like to know who I am, or why I'm doing this, this is the place to be. Enjoy!
MY FEATURED PROJECTS.
Hand prosthesis
Making a hand prosthesis sounds pretty cool, doesn't it? It is, however, not as easy as it sounds. Luckily, I got help from five of my fellow students to successfully build a prosthesis that meets the necessary requirements. Examples are catching a balloon and pouring out a drink. The prosthetic hand copies the movements of the user's other hand, and thus the user is able to carry large objects with both 'hands' as well. With this project my team and I won the first prize for best project in the second bachelor in civil engineering (2017-'18), what proves I'm not the only one thinking this project is fantastic! If I was able to spark your interest, you can find out here how it's made.
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"DARE TO GO AGAINST THE CURRENT."
Hand controlled car
In my last year in secondary school I had to start a final project. It had to be technological, but apart from that I was completely free to pick my subject. I let my imagination run free and thought: wouldn't it be nice to make a typical RC car, but controlled by hand gestures? You might agree that that’s a great idea, but definitely not one without problems; I was only 17 years old and hardly had any experience in advanced electronics. Therefore, I had to teach myself how to make a wireless connection and how to reduce the surface used for the electronics to fit them on my hand. This task was really challenging, but also extremely instructive. By figuring out how to do these things, my knowledge in mechatronics massively improved. The struggle was big, but in the end the satisfaction that the finished product gave was totally worth it. With my hand controlled car I also took part in two contests in which I both won the first prize. Clearly, the judges thought it was worth the struggle as well. You can click further to see how I brought this project to a good end.
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"THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX."
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"BE CREATIVE, BE INNOVATIVE."
Robotic arm
A robotic arm is one of the most typical applications of mechatronics. They are mostly seen in factories where they’re used to assemble a product, to move heavy objects or to help the employees. These industrial kinds of robotic arms consist of many expensive components. Therefore, if we want to make a similar arm, we need to build a miniature of it to make it attainable. Hence, we must replace their industrial motors by servomotors, and use a control panel instead of advanced programming languages to set the coordinates of the gripper in space.
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I created this project parallel in time with my Simple Robot I talked about earlier. Mind you that I had no experience in electronics yet. So again, the experience of making the arm was absolutely fun and instructive, and I'm really proud of the result. You can read about it more in the further description in which I will focus on the gripper and the base of the arm.
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"A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT IS A PROJECT YOU ARE PROUD OF."
Other projects
Apart from the four projects listed above, I also made many smaller projects. I'm talking about a 3x3x3 LED Cube, a universal remote control (to control all my other projects), my own 'Arduino' and more. These are simply built for myself to learn more about electronics and solving mechanical issues. It's the basic stuff you need to become a practical thinker in the world of engineering. The following link will bring you to an overview of my featured projects.
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