I'm Peter Smolders

Engineer by training, maker by profession and creator by nature.

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Inventing and creating new things as well as solving problems are my passion. With software or hardware. I have experience with mechanical and electronic design. I am lucky to own a small lathe, a mill, a 3D printer, a desktop cutting machine and a cnc-router. Most of which I hacked to my liking.
At the same time I am interested in the arts and crafts.
For most of my life I have been drawing and sculpting. Recently glass art and glass blowing became a new passion.

 

Skills

3D-drawing and printing

Solid Edge, Autodesk Inventor & Blender


My PrintrBot Metal Plus 3D-printer allows me to create tools and parts in a fast and simple way.

Web Development

PHP, MySQL, javascript


Development of school website including an online subscription system, a reservation system and a custom made CMS.

Mechanical engineering

Lathe, mill and CNC router


When I need strong metal parts a lathe and mill are at my disposal in my workshop.
My router comes in handy for cutting plastics, wood or aluminium.

Microcontrollers


PIC 16F628 from Microchip was the first microcontroller I learned to program. Later I moved to the multicore controller Propeller from Parallax.
Now I frequently use the common Arduino boards and RaspBerry Pi.
I program in C or, when speed is of the essence, in machine language .
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Electronic design

PCB


Eagle has been my favorite design tool for years for electronic schematics and pcb design, but recently I turned to KiCAD.

Furniture design

Woodworking


Most of the closets in our home are designed and manufactured by myself using hand and machinetools.

Design and construction of my home


I have drawn my own plans for our new house and followed up the project. All finishes and technical installations are being done by me.

Glass Art


In 2017 I engaged with glass art and glass blowing at IKA Mechelen.
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ICT skills

PHP
HTML & CSS
JavaScript
PHP & MySQL
Photoshop
Autodesk Inventor
Blender

Work Experience

2020 - now

Engineer

KU Leuven Faculty of Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences

Development and maintenance of technical equipment used in research.

2019 - 2020

School website CVO Semper

Web Developer

Development of a new school website, including an online subscription system, reservation system and custom made CMS.

2018 - 2020

Intranet

SharePoint Online Administration and Development

2017 - 2020

Moodle LMS

Moodle administrator and developer

General administration as well as development of custom themes and plugins.

1992-2020

Teacher ICT

CVO Vilvoorde

All kind of applications ranging from Microsoft Office to Adobe and 3D drawing.

1997-2019

Webdesigner and developer

CVO Vilvoorde

School website and custom made CMS and intranet.

Education

1994

Teacher diploma

VUB

1981-1986

Master of Science in Engineering (Electro-mechanical Engineering)

VUB