Roland Meertens
I'm a machine learning engineer who builds self-driving cars at Wayve. In my spare time I sometimes build interesting things, and on this blog I share robots I build, websites I make, and other interesting musings.
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Passport Privacy: a watermark tool that respects your data
Why I built passport-privacy.meertens.dev — a no-tracking, no-cookies, fully client-side, open-source watermarking tool for photos of your passport and ID documents.
April 30, 2026Highlighted posts (all posts)
Point and Snap for my smart home
Having smart devices in your home is fun, but turning them off is still a hassle. Taking an app, talking to Alexa, or pressing a button all takes too much time. Why can’t we in 2022 just point at a...
May 5, 2022
Building a Pikachu Tesla Coil
This week I made a new project: a Tesla-coil powered Pikachu It’s essentially a 3D printed pikachu which emits sparks. What’s cool about it is that I can also play the pokemon theme tune through it...
August 30, 2023
Building a Cupcake Robot
Currently, as the corona crisis is causing heavy lockdowns, people have to keep a social distance. This made it difficult to celebrate special events, so as a challenge I decided to try to make a...
May 17, 2020
Immersive Points: a virtual reality point cloud visualisation tool
A couple of years ago I made a visualization tool for the Google Cardboard that could show you a brain by looking around(../brain-visualisation/). The two big...
January 11, 2020