This robot has been subject of a number of theses at University of Twente – I did the design of the first version together with Takao Watanabe (from Waseda University, Tokyo) in 2013. In the meantime it has been used
eyePi
reFURBYshment
Goal of this project is to realise a retirement home for all those 1998-style furbies who have been abandoned or replaced by newer, fancier models. The reFURBYshment aims at: reviving those abandoned furbies and give them a home, a nice
drawbot
DrawBot has been realised at MakerFestival Twente together with Creative Tech BSc student Janwillem te Voortwis. DrawBot takes any image and converts it to low-res bitmapped robotised art.
squarewave
Squarewave consists of 81 small reflective rotors which break incoming sunlight into numerous coloured beams of light. The rotors are suspended from a moving gimbal frame, consisting of four concentric squares, which keeps the rotors constantly moving. Squarewave was commissioned
animatronics workshop
Using a special set of servo’s, control panel and control box it is possible to make your cardboard creations come alive. The first edition of this workshop (try out) was at Gogbot festival 2015. Building robotic ‘heads’ and animating them
awe goosebumps
Together with Sensoree founder Kristin Neidlinger I have been working on a series of workshops and events building interactive inflatable wearable technology. One of the works (the goosebump project) which has incubated at the University of Twente DesignLab was on
garden of machines
The flatpackwalkers are on exhibit in the ‘Garden of Machines’ at ‘ het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam’ 18-04 – 23-08, 2015.
baba
This is the first attempt of building a walking house, the Baba[01]. It was shown during Gogbot 2014 – where it usually was referred to as the ‘birdhouse’
seeker[ES5]
![seeker[ES5]](https://edwindertien.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cropped-2014-09-11-21.52.49.jpg "seeker[ES5]")
For the seeker mission #5 during Gogbot 2014 I provided the spaceship’s robotics. A robot for pipe inspection under the craft – and the converted utility vehicle (S.P.O.T.) as assistive robot for Extra Vehicular Activities