Projects

During my time at Hyperion Technologies I got the opportunity to head my very first product. There was customer interest to create an add-on module for the iADCS400 attitude control subsystem which would add higher precision gyroscopes to the mix for improved overall system performance.

The end result of this is the PG400 Precision Gyroscope, a small three-axis MEMS based gyroscope solution that could both be used as an integrated part of the iADCS400, as well as a stand-alone gyroscope.

This gyroscope was launched in January 2023 and has been operational in-orbit ever since. Satellite information can be found here.

From September 2016 to September 2017 I was part of the core team of Formula Student Team Delft. As part of the core-team I co-lead a team of 70 students building one of the fastest vehicles on Earth. The DUT17 is a four-wheel driven electric Formula Student class vehicle that boasts an impressive 0-100 km/h in 2.2 seconds. Together with my team we competed in Formula Student competition in Germany, Hungary and Spain.

In my role as Technical & Finance manager I was tasked with managing vehicle production, acquiring and maintaining sponsors, as well as bookkeeping.

In 2018 I had developed sufficient skills in using my 3D printer and decided it was time to develop something on my own. During holidays when I was younger I always played the game Settlers of Catan with my parents and remember how difficult it was to play on the camp sites we went to, always bumping over the pieces and getting the cardboard tiles wet.

This 3D printed version fully replaces the standard board, is much smaller and completely made of plastic, making it waterproof. Full model available on Printables.

Extending onwards from the BierTeller, the next problem to be solved in my student house was to keep track of the weekly cleaning schedule. Just like any good student project, this got completely out of control. The end result being the HouseMonitor, a monitor in the middle of the living room that displayed the weekly cleaning schedule, long-term tracking of cleaning jobs, keeping score in snooker games, displaying the weather, as well as taking the output from the BierTeller and displaying long-term statistics for each member of the house.

The monitor was controlled by a Raspberry Pi 2, running a self-developed user interface in PyGame and taking keyboard input from a nearby numpad.

Beer culture is a large part of student life in Delft in 2016. Speak to any student that has studied in the Netherlands and they will be able to tell you something about the system they utilised to keep track of the amount of beer present in the house, and to whom it belongs. My house was no different.

Together with my roommates at the time I developed the BierTeller v1.0, which consists of an Arduino Nano, driving three seven segment displays and three buttons, keeping track of the beer count on it’s internal EEPROM.

Later models (not depicted here) enhanced the counter further, replacing the Arduino Nano with an ESP8266, adding wifi functionality. Why does this product need wifi? That’s a question I still do not have an answer to. But this was before the IOT home assistant era, and something having wifi was still considered cool.