Together with HaHaHo, I’m creating a number of soldering workshops for Library Neude in Utrecht. These workshops have to be accessible for people who don’t have a technological background but who would like to learn more about soldering. The workshops progress in difficulty so that a learning line is created: participants can develop their skills […]
This media deck sprung from my desire to have all my media buttons in one convenient place, especially for online meetings during the corona lockdown. I had been wanting to work with Cherry MX keycaps and reverse-mounted LEDs for a while, so this was the perfect opportunity to design a PCB that incorporated those components. […]
Moduli is a modular light kit that makes full use of the reflective, canvas-like, properties of white PCBs. With Moduli, I wanted to explore how LED light can be mixed to create gradient patterns and I chose PCBs as a medium because this seemed a new application area. I went through multiple iterations and I […]
This Lotus is based on the Lotus I created for the course Sensors for Physiology: https://www.vectorious.nl/lotus/. I really like the aesthetic of the first Lotus, but I wanted to make the electronics inside part of the sculpture. The base became a PCB that contains most of the components. The flower petals I kept the same: […]
For the Signify Challenge, Iris Bekkers and I created Meshy, which is a soldering pattern for creating 3D freeform LED sculptures. These sculptures can be controlled by an Arduino with 6 columns turning on and off. The challenging part of this build was not the soldering, although it was quite difficult to freeform solder the […]
For the course Sensors for Physiology, I dove deep into PCB design with KiCAD. I had previously used KiCAD to create schematics for the course Creative Electronics, but I hadn’t really explored its PCB capabilities. Surprisingly, I found PCB layouting to be quite addictive. My main drive behind wanting to create my own PCB’s was […]
In the summer of 2019, I was inspired by Mohit Bhoite‘s freeform electronics sculptures because of the unique aesthetic of freeform soldering. Bhoite kindly provided some tutorials and a template on his website and Instagram-account, so I was able to quickly try out some of his designs. Experimenting a little with existing designs allowed me […]
Being a student assistant for Creative Programming in year 2 rekindled my enthusiasm for creating programmed art. This time around, I wanted to expand my knowledge beyond Processing to also include JavaScript, and in particular the P5 library. I’ve particularly enjoyed coming up with mathematical algorithms that would create interesting patterns. In this way, I’ve been […]
As a kitten joined our household in the summer of 2019, I decided to build a cat toy consisting of a running LED for the cat to chase. This was a far more difficult project than I initially expected because cats turn out to be extremely picky. The programming and the electronics were fairly simple, […]
In the summer of 2019, I became involved with the Meet je stad! soldering workshops held in the Neudebieb in Utrecht. Due to corona distancing measures, I felt less effective as an instructor/facilitator, so I decided to create a soldering video manual so people could see how to solder tricky bits. I created these two videos […]