Hi, my name is Huub van Niekerk and I'm living in the Netherlands.
I have an MSc degree in Embedded Systems, specialized in control
and robotics.
This website is in English, because 95% of the visitors of this
website come from outside the Netherlands.
Scroll down for my blog topics list, click any side-picture or
click
to go the blog page.
Contact
hobby
(e.g. about fischertechnik)
business:
Via my company Van Niekerk Engineering, I'm an architect,
engineer and consultant for
* Engineering/designing Systems, Control and Robotics
(SysML, UML)
* Debuging/refactoring software written mostly in C, C++,
Python, Perl.
* AI, IT, Open Source and EA consult (BPMN, DMN, Archimate,
TOGAF, MBSE)
* Design of SQL database, warehouse (e.g. IEDF0) &
administrator for MySQL / MariaDB / PostgreSQL
* OpenSource/Linux setup & maintenance
* Photography and videography of technical objects and
events
For more information or a quote, please visit my company website
.
New videos (16 seconds shorts and normal) are published each
Wednesday on my
(please subscribe!).
Support
You can support me via Patron, Ko-fi, BuyMeACoffee or PayPal.
If you like my videos (and as of 3 July 2026, 687 subscribers
on Youtube really do!) you can support in 6 ways:
1: Join me as a Tier 2 paying member via
By doing so, you get access to the full-length videos in
which I show the building process, testing, demonstrations and
code in detail with my own narrations. Starting with Mirft2
episode 230 (27 May 2026), a full-length video also features me on
camera. By joining me, you can help me create better videos. Your
name will be mentioned in a way that depends on the amount of
money you pledge (Patreon).
Members are listed on the
As a free member of Patreon, you can also watch free videos. 2: Join me as a Bronze member via
. By doing so, you get access to the full-length videos in which I
show the building process, testing, demonstrations and code in
detail with my own narrations. Starting with Mirft2 episode 230
(27 May 2026), a full-length video also features me on camera. By
joining me, you can help me create better videos. Your name will
be mentioned in a way that depends on your subscription for
(Ko-fi). 3: Buy a full-length video for a few euros (or dollars).
Please see each Patron link on my blog page and my
.
4: Do a (small)
via
or use the QR code 5: Buy me a coffee or tea via either or use the QR code 6: Buy me a coffee or tea via
or use the QR code
Blog about my experiments
Latest: 3 July 2026.
Published each week (usually on a Friday) are my blogpage, the
page about the current experiment(s) and a special page (please
scroll down for the topics list)
This week: my fischertechnik model of a marblerun with
rollertracks.
On my weekly (Friday Amsterdam/CEST timezone) updated
I give a short description about each Youtube video of my
experiments with:
* embedded systems (
,
,
),
* electronics and
robotics/mechatronics
* OpenSource software such as
and
,
* programming using e.g.
,
,
.
Since the end of December 2023, I also publish Youtube shorts
of 16 seconds about the videos (which have gained me lots of
subscribers!).
I also show lots of photo's and video's I make during (mainly)
fischertechnik
. This Events page contains links to my
photosites.
If you scroll down, you see a clickable list of all
topics, each with the last date of publication. The date(s) in bold
is (are) the most recent.
To give an idea where you all come from, this is a weekly updated
TXT controller based:
(29 May 2026)
(22 May 2026)
RoboInterface based:
(7 June 2024),
(8 May 2026)
(see also the robotics page for the robot arm; 12 June 2026)
(see also the robotics page; 14 March 2025)
(see also the robotics page; 3 July 2026)
(27 February 2026)
(19 June 2026)
With manual controller (e.g. joysticks):
(see also the robotics page; 21 February 2025)
(see also the robotics page; 6 May 2022)
Without controller:
(1 July 2022)
(15 March 2024)
(21 November 2025)
(1 May 2026)
fischertechnik may also be used in these projects:
(until 17 June 2016: various; 17 June 2016 - 19 Oct. 2018:
see also the robotics page; 26 February 2021)
(19 April 2024)
(15 May 2026; may also include Raspberry Pi 1 and 3)
(4 March 2022)
(5 June 2026)
(23 August 2019)
(24 September 2021)
(8 January 2021)
(26 June 2026)
(2 September 2022)
video playlists & picture pages (e.g.
fischertechnik convention, robotmc TeamBuildingDay; 20
february 2026).
(22 May 2026)
External publication about me or/and my project(s):
(German)
or use the QR code
or use the QR code