Smart parking

My group (with Thomas Kromkamp and Douwe Bart Mulder) designed a smart parking system to guide drivers to an empty parking spot in a parking garage. Using colored lights in the road, the time it costs to find a spot can be decreased enormously. Not only is this easier for the drivers, it’s also better for the environment and the capacity of the parking garage.

Sadly, we didn’t have the time to build the devices. Instead, we made a simulation of the system:

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Fridge magnets

Together with Pieter Pelt and Jan Kolkmeier, I made internet enabled fridge magnets. Those fridge magnets can provide information about traffic jams, your washing machine, the weather forecast, etc. Click through for a short summary and our project report.

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Anamorphosis

One of the courses in the first year was Creative Exploration of Structures. Although the name doesn’t sound like it, it was a mathematics course. It was about some less common subjects of math: infinity, the golden proportion, self-similar structures, etc. We proved some classic math theorems ourselves and tried to make some nice images with fractals. At the end, we all had to write an essay on a (more or less) math-related topic. I chose to write mine about anamorphosis. Read it here >


Switching stylesheets

I built a script to switch between CSS-stylesheets without reloading the page. This example shows how you can change the look of a website by using different CSS only. View the page >


Bouncing avatars

Our first assignment for Programming for Creative Technology was to program a small avatar. I made a smiley with eyes following your cursor. After that, we had to make many instances of it (so it had to be object oriented) and let them bounce against each other. Click here for the result!