Ruben Smit

Steal the show on the dance-floor with these LED corsages that sync their colors and animations. These wearable lights have several different modes, from slowly spinning to fast flashing, that can match the setting. And when your partner changes their settings, your light will change too.

During my graduation project I investigated how a new version of Raemonda – an administrative package for financial service providers – could be developed with better scalability, maintainability and testability. This new version should better support large customers and improve the performance of the application.

As an activity for our student association during the Covid lockdowns we organized an IOT workshop where the participants would create a LED ring light. The goal of the workshop was to provide the participants with some basic knowledge about embedded electronics and programming. The project could be used as a steppingstone for further exploration into the IOT field.

How do you measure the usage of a playground? The traditional way would be observing it, either physically or with a camera. But this is costly and poses some privacy problems. As a result, very little is known about playground usage by children. Is there another way to answer this question?

Together with my dorm room we came up with the idea to do a rabbithunt from our balcony. We have a large field behind our house and a balcony with great view of the field. The idea was to have several laser guns on the balcony that can shoot the “rabbits” down below. The “rabbits” are people wearing special vests, once they are shot a display increments the killcount of both the rabbit and the shooter. A price was given to the best shooter and the least shot rabbit.

This installation, created for the Gogbot festival as part of the study Creative Technology at the University of Twente, is a mirror, but not a regular one. When you look into the mirror you don’t see yourself, your reflection is different. Your reflection will be how we think humans will look like when they move to mars and adapt to their environment.

For a project Bouke Regnerus and I had to make an instrument, we came up with the idea to make a Sequencer capable of sending MIDI data to a MIDI player. This sequencer or launchpad can be used to play music files or act as a MIDI instrument. Using the custom software you can preview the currently playing sequence.

For my final graduation project of my highschool (profielwerkstuk) I build a 3D printer. These printers are capable of creating solid objects from a 3d model.