Mirft (RETIRED)


Hand & Arm


RaspberryPi 1B+


Mirft 2


RaspberryPi 2B


Arduino MegaADK


RaspberryPi 3B


Hydraulics


InfraRed


Beachsailer


Rollertrack

Move the switch

Discovery


Mydfir


BeagleBoard Classic
(RETIRED)


Arduino Mega2560


Arduino Yún (RETIRED)


Arduino Uno


ESP32


RI-BASIC


Bluetooth


Move-in-circle

Move-in-circle with propellers




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.

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 (Archimate, TOGAF, BPMN, DMN, SysML, UML, MBSE)
 * Debuging/refactoring software written mostly in C, C++, Python, Perl.
 * IT & Open Source consult
 * Design of SQL database, warehouse (e.g. IEDF0) & administrator for MySQL/MariaDB
 * OpenSource/Linux setup & maintenance
 * Photography and videography of technical objects and events
For more information or a quote, please visit my company website
.

Writing: I have picked up writing again. Short stories, each of which is available in Dutch and English. Each short story only costs €3,00. More information and a small excerpt can be found on the
page.

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Social media
New videos are published frequently on my
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Support
You can support in 4 ways:

1: Join me as a Tier 2 paying member via
or 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 narrations. 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) or subscribe for (Ko-fi).
Members are listed on the

2: Buy a full-length video for 5 euros. Please see my
for the available titles.
3: Do a (small)
via
(any amount in euros will do)
4: Buy me a coffee via either Buy Me a
          Coffee at ko-fi.com or use the QR code


Blog about my experiments: 3 January 2025.
Published each week are my blogpage, the page about the current experiment(s) and maybe a special page (please scroll down for the topics list)
This week: fischertechnik rollertrack.

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 about the videos.

I also show lots of photo's and video's I make during (mainly) fischertechnik
. This Events page contains links to my
photosite.
If you scroll down, you see a clickable list of all topics, each with the last date of publication. The date in bold is the most recent.

To give an idea where you all come from, this is a weekly updated





  TXT controller based:

(20 September 2024)

(13 December 2024)

  RoboInterface based:
(7 June 2024),

(26 January 2024)

 (see also the robotics page for the robot arm; 29 November 2024)

 (see also the robotics page; 20 December 2024)

(see also the robotics page; 27 December 2024)

(15 November 2024)
 
  With manual controller (e.g. joysticks):

(see also the robotics page; 31 May 2024)

(see also the robotics page; 6 May 2022)
 
  Without controller:

(1 July 2022)

(15 March 2024)

(8 November 2024)

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)

  (3 January 2025,; may also include RPi 1 and 3)

  (4 March 2022)

(13 December 2024)

(23 August 2019)

(24 September 2021)

 (8 January 2021)

  (22 October 2024)

  (2 September 2022)



video playlists & picture pages (e.g. fischertechnik convention, robotmc TeamBuildingDay; 1 November 2024).


  (20 December 2024)

External publication about me or/and my project(s):
(German)