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Where it all started
1978Where it all started
When I was a very young child I was already intrigued by how things are made. I could often been found opening up all kinds of products to have a peek inside. Luckily for my parents, over the years I also got better in putting the products back together again. I dreamed of being an inventor […]... Read more
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Electronics education
When you open up products 8 out of 10 times you will find electronics inside. You can imagine I got interested in these electronic components and how they worked. During high-school I joined a club called ‘the young researchers’ where I could practice building electronic circuits. Also at home I was often busy ... Read more
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Industrial Design Engineering
In my first year at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) at the Delft University of Technology, I realized this was exactly the kind of education I had been looking for. For example, in the first weeks we had to examine common household appliances, open them up and figure out how they worked. A perfect ... Read more
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Screen printing
2003Screen printing
I like to create. Be it products, graphics, art, websites, pictures, etc. Therefore one of the many hobbies I practiced was screen printing. With screen printing you place a graphic on a screen, place the screen on paper, a T-shirt, wood, or basically anything flat and squeeze paint through the screen. With multiple screens... Read more
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SKF wheelchair transfer seat
The Integral Design Project is a big project within the study Industrial Design Engineering. With a group of five students we had to design a new product for a company. In our case this company was SKF, the world leading bearing manufacturer. The company was interested in the health care market and wanted us to come ... Read more
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The Ice-Cream Cycle
2005The Ice-Cream Cycle
I did an internship at an ice-cream company called ‘Professor Grunschnabel’. There I designed and engineered six ice-cycles. With these ice-cycles children can make their own ice-cream. They first mix some fruit and juice and put that in a stainless container. This container is then placed inside an bigger contain... Read more
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User friendly bicycle lock
Everyone who owns a bicycle will agree on this one. Bicycle locks are a must have but can be very annoying. Finding the keys, inserting the keys, two or more hands are needed to operate the lock, the lock is unreachable between bicycles, etc. I had those problems too and came up with the idea […]... Read more
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Workshop instructor
2007Workshop instructor
After graduation and a long trip through Southern Africa I was looking for a side-job for additional income. With my enthusiasm for and experience in the faculty workshop I became a workshop instructor at my old faculty. This was a very nice job, I had to teach first years how the machines work (lathes, milling mac... Read more
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Nuon Solarcar – NUNA 4
Every year the Technical University of Delft participates in the World Solar Challenge held in Australia. Each year a team of enthusiast and very capable students form a team to work a complete year, fulltime, on building the next NUNA solar car to participate and win the World Solar Challenge. A friend of mine participated... Read more
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Hand made coffee table
After I bought my first house in Amsterdam, I went looking for new furniture. I could not find exactly what I was looking for so I decided I could make my own table. I went to a wood trader and bought all kinds of different wood. In the workshop I started with straightening the wood and make the different […]... Read more
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Ice-World International
Ice-World is the largest manufacturer of mobile (real ice) ice-rinks. It has a production facility in the Netherlands and a dealer network with warehousing world wide. In 2008 I started working at Ice-World as a young product developer. My first assignment was to fix issues with the worlds largest artificial outside ice tra... Read more
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Skating Aid
2010Skating Aid
The skating aid resembles a cute seal which is very attractive to kids. The skating-aid, named Bobby, gives young skaters some stability on the ice rink so that they can practice their skating skills. The youngest of skaters can sit on Bobby and enjoy the ride while their parents or siblings push them around. Our […]... Read more
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Ice-Linked
2012Ice-Linked
When working for Ice-World, I came up with a huge project to improve interactions on our ice-rinks. Unfortunately this project is still a bit secret, so I cannot tell a lot about it, but you can look at this video below. But it involved a lot of electronics, rfid-tags, people linking them to their Facebook […]... Read more
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PlayFountain
2013PlayFountain
The PlayFountain® is the first mobile water play attraction and composed of numerous square meter sized elements, which leads to a 100m² water park. The PlayFountain® contains more than a thousand water jets, by which many pre-programmed games can be played. Games like walking through a labyrinth, or escape from jail,... Read more
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Soldering smt
2014Soldering smt
Recently I had to solder some pcb panels which I had designed. I made a time lapse movie to show how I soldered the pcb’s. For this project I used a solderpaste stencil to add the solder to the pcb’s. This is actually a lot like screen printing. I then placed all components on the pcb […]... Read more