Machines

I make machines. I’m fascinated by moving elements, the forces of nature harnessed into useful order. I love the open-ended puzzles to combine software and hardware into something that amazes and makes you smile.

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  Origin of Life
  This time machine takes you back 4 billion years, when the first life emerged on earth. In the turbulent primordial soup of water, oxygen and organic compounds such as the first proteins, the first single-celled organisms emerged, which over the course of millions… Read more: Origin of Life
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  Tehuti Brain Scanner
  The Tehuti Brain Scanner started with a crystal ball from AliExpress. My daughter studied psychology in Nijmegen and because I am also a psychologist, our mutual gifts are often brain-related. She gave me this crystal ball with a beautifully engraved 3D model of… Read more: Tehuti Brain Scanner
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  Marconi
  For some reason I have always been fascinated with morse code. Ever since I was a little boy, the idea that morse code allows you to talk to people on the other side of the globe, through old-skool telegraph lines or short-wave radio,… Read more: Marconi
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  Nautilus
  The Nautilus was my first venture into the wonderful world of Arduino. It all started with an article from a German photographer on how he had wired a GoPro action cam with a big button and four lamps and put it in a… Read more: Nautilus