About Us

Who Am I?

My name is Haseeb. I started Raptijd.nl as a sometimes messy showcase for robotics, a corner of the web that deliberately avoids corporate gloss.

The design combines archived hobbyist entries with off-the-cuff project notes, so I invite visitors to select and see where it resonates with them.

Even as a child, I took apart blinking plastic toys to hear the motors click.

Years later, that habit evolved into a semi-adult habit of tweaking code into Roombas and wedge-shaped drones that rarely flew straight. Both episodes, scattered and stubborn, reveal the same compulsion to watch gears and bits spin.

Raptijd emerged in response to a single, persistent question: where online can the weird, wonderful, and occasionally broken side of robotics sit side by side? Student prototypes, lab failures, and half-baked experiments seldom make the highlight reel, yet each prototype declares, ‘Progress starts here.’ The answer, at least for now, is this site.

Why I Started Raptijd

The impulse to launch this site grew out of a simple suspicion: pristine engineering showcases never tell the whole story.

I wanted a corner of the internet that stitches together elegant prototypes, embarrassing breakdowns, hushed lab experiments, and caffeine-fueled student hacks.

Whether your background is scholarly, casual, or somewhere in between, the goal is to spark your curiosity and, for a moment, make you feel as though you’re working side-by-side with me.

I trust that real growth lies in the sequence of trying it and posting the proof online. Each entry on Raptijd.nl is a nudge, good, bad, or amusing, to wander deeper into the wonderfully imperfect world of machines that move sense and occasionally fall over.

My Background

Education

I earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronics, a hybrid discipline that stitches mechanical hardware, electrical control loops, and software code into the skeletal structure of modern robots. Three university courses shaped the trajectory far more than I anticipated.

Autonomous Systems Design threw me headfirst into the riddle of robots’ real-time reasoning; the course slowly kindled a borderline obsession with onboard decision logic.

Digital Control Systems-whatever joy button-pushing mechatronics students think they will find mostly a proof-laden slog through delta-s and z-planes; oddly, I finished the sequence liking the clean crunch of the math. Artificial Intelligence for Robotics flipped the on-screen limbs from choreographed motion to rudimentary learning, and that tiny spark hit like a full CIRCUIT surge.

After graduation, I rounded out the credential set with a weekend course in Embedded Systems, apologies to the purists, and another quick dive into Human-Robot Interaction; no single certificate cured arrogance, but each left fresh smudges on the standard assumptions.

My Experience & Expertise

The transition from lecture hall to prototyping bay was less of a leap than a modest shuffle; within months, I found myself wiring a mid-sized robotics lab where collaborative arms rehearsed pick-and-place choreography under the sinusoidal hum of large-scale PLC cabinets.

Weekends often rotated between mentoring student competitions, debugging odometry code on the fly, and laughing at a bipedal robot that swaggered like a drunken marionette and snapped ankles faster than the team could solder. Failure tallied its lessons, I admit.

Over the years, comfort has grown in both the crisp theoretical curves and the sticky, unpredictable terrain that seems to define the field; gaps remain, yes, yet Im at least familiar with the aroma of burnt PCB dye. The toolbox swings across several spans:

• Robot Design, plain and broad, begins with sketching a CAD hull and ends with grinding aluminum chassis plates until one finally fits.
• Malfunction Testing- sometimes I describe it as proud data collection disguised as systematic wreckage.
• Robot Media Creation covers the full spectrum, featuring how-to guides, playful animations, and straightforward walkthroughs.
• Lab Research unfolds in dim rooms, punctuated by the slow rhythm of coffee refills and relentless circuit debugging.
• Coaching student teamshase produced a short list of my happiest professional minutes, every one of them earned through trial and error.

What You’ll Find on Raptijd.nl

Robot Design

Robotic prototyping lies at the crossroads of drafting tables and 3D printers. On these pages, you will find sketches I admire, half-baked experiments, and blunt walk-throughs. CAD insights, torque calculations, and even control schemes appear in prose that refuses to retreat into jargon.

Robot Malfunctions

Machines bungle their routines, and honestly, that is half the thrill. Here, I post frayed wires, toppled testbeds, and other embarrassments alongside the lessons that somehow shine through the wreckage. The tone is rougher than the rest of the site, yet the instructional value remains intact.

Robot Media

Think of this corner as an online gallery fused with a late-night tech binge. I sift through animations, photo essays, and ungainly demo footage until something resembling a soul shows up behind the servos.

Robotics Labs

Curious about those glass-walled enclosures or the cluttered corners of student basements? This section highlights living laboratories, their under-the-radar breakthroughs, and the unconventional prototypes that often fail to reach the IEEE.

Student Robotics

I still remember the bleary midnight soldering and the triumph of a single wheel obediently spinning. Project outlines, rough-and-ready tutorials and spirited tales from the classroom pay homage to every budding builder who stays up late chasing a clean debug log.

Why I Still Do This

Email pings never sleep. Most mornings, I find short notes from rookie engineers, weekend tinkerers, and grad students all of them surprised to learn they aren’t the only ones grinding out half-working prototypes.

Raptijd.nl lives to spread that very shock because behind every polished robot, there are a dozen face-palm failures, and admitting to this turns out to be the only way forward.

The site claims no polish and offers no sponsor logos.

What it trades instead is real misfires and cafeteria scribbles that might give someone else the nerve to wire power to an idea that still looks wobbly on paper. One small success in another person’s inbox will justify the burnt sig traces and the late-night commits a hundred times over.

Stay curious, smash a few servos, and start over smarter. Exploration is supposed to feel like stumbling through fog, so keep walking anyway.

Haseeb

Founder, Raptijd.nl