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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Three months of agentic coding - my experience
Last month I wrote my experience with AI-generated coding on this blog. I got a lot of positive feedback, so I created another chart for my work up till this month and wrote down the thoughts I had.
April 4, 2026
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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/index.html). The two big...
January 11, 2020