{"id":1555,"date":"2020-06-08T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/pintra\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:23:03","slug":"tinkering-with-maarten-weyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/pintra-en\/tinkering-with-maarten-weyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinkering with Maarten Weyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1555\" class=\"elementor elementor-1555\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1b63521 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1b63521\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-70d6e48\" data-id=\"70d6e48\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9462dff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9462dff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Prof. Maarten Weyn, lecturer in the Faculty of Applied Engineering, has started a YouTube channel: Weyn Tech. <\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">There he gives us his personal take on the corona crisis (in English) but also posts cool videos about how you can put gadgets together with things you have lying around at home. 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