Three Dutch teams in the World Solar Challenge (SBS)

Posted on October 24, 2023January 20, 2024 by Jeroen

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IN DUTCH – Sinds 1987 wordt er om het jaar een race georganiseerd om te zien wie er het snelste van Darwin naar Adelaide kan rijden in een voertuig volledig aangedreven door zonne-energie. De teams, dit jaar zijn het er 38, komen uit alle delen van de wereld. Ik sprak met de drie Nederlandse teams uit Delft, Groningen en Twente, die met hun uiterst futuristische voertuigen de 3000 kilometer lange tocht zullen afleggen.

MAKERS GONNA MAKE

Posted on October 17, 2023 by Jeroen

I MAKE THINGS!!

Actually… This is not a make, it’s a repair. Daughter dear didn’t like the elastic (it was that floss stuff). I said “What’s wrong with it?” while stretching the bracelet and then beads went flying. Clearly that wasn’t the strongest elastic. Well it is now!

Now is probably a good time to explain that besides being a voice on the radio, and a collector of playing cards, I make stuff. Synchronized to music Christmas lights, 3D printed things, painfully bad dad jokes… And Bracelets. Yeah yeah, I just said this is a repair, I just restrung. it. But… I make originals as well. Sometimes I even 3D print bracelets. More on that later.

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HOLY HOLE IN A DONUT, BATMAN… I haven’t been here in forever. And in the process I have been really slack with posting new content for you to pod on… Let’s remedy that! While this is isn’t exactly “hot off the press”, it’s the last item I produced for SBS. Not last as in never […]