Hi! I am Olgierd Nowakowski, a mechatronics engineer.
Since a young age, I have always been curious about how things work and how they are made. This has ultimately pushed me to pursue a BEng. Mechatronics education at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg, where I work today at the Centre for Industrial Mechanics.
Over the years as a student and later as an engineer at SDU, my work has mostly revolved around Additive Manufacturing (AM), starting with simple FDM machines and later expanding into metal AM, using Laser-Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) and more recently Electron Beam Melting (EBM).
I have also worked for Danfoss in Nordborg at the Additive Design and Manufacturing centre as a student worker, and later had my internship there. I have mainly conducted work with focus on Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), reverse engineering of old/3D-scanned components and developing tools to gain an overview of the economical aspects of AM in the company.
As a part of my internship, I have developed a workflow for creating functional prototypes of sealed electrical connectors used in sensors, enabling the company to significantly cut down time in which prototypes can be qualified. We have later published the work in a paper on this at AHFE 2024.
During my studies, I have also worked as a student worker at a medical start-up, Exo360. I have aided with the early development and manufacturing of their ExoCast, programming software to help design lattice structures and doing some mechatronics design for conducting early testing.
Other than being a big part of my work AM has always been my passion. I have built custom machines, and modified off-the-shelf ones more times than I care to remember. One of the more recent projects I have worked on is a fully-custom large volume pellet extrusion machine (link). Besides that, I like to tinker with Linux systems and electronics, and have constructed different projects over the years:
- Custom soldering iron for T12 (and other) handles
- Build system for Debian on H3-based boards
- Lab power supply (WIP)
...and others which you can probably find around the site :-)
If you have any questions or other requests, please contact me at:
olgierd(at)novakovsky.eu