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Building ideas into real, impactful products and experiences, both physical and digital.
U:NIT — modular power station · Winner, Business Potential · Ecodesign Award 2025 · Read more on Vlaanderen Circulair ↗
View project1st place · Sonaca × Agoria
Our team took first place in the Agoria Additive Manufacturing Design Challenge, hosted by Sonaca in Gosselies.
Orbitec was made for a real client, so most of the process stays behind closed doors. This is what we can show.
View projectBusiness Potential winner
Every year millions of e-bike batteries are scrapped while up to half of their cells still work. We recover them, keep only cells with at least 80% capacity, match them and give them a second life in our POWERUNITS. When one underperforms, we take it back and refill it.
As a young studio we could not beat big brands on price or tech, so we competed on brand and emotion. U:NIT is a unit, solid and powerful, and it unites people and parts. It is made for shared moments outdoors, for people who would rather fix their gear than replace it.
Sheet metal forced us to design smart: every bend had to earn its place. The handle took the most iterations, from a sprung exoskeleton to a stiff grip, until strap handles won. They keep it compact, close the lid, strap it to a car or rack and lift it off rough ground.
We designed our own PCBs for power, protection and communication between each POWERUNIT and the hub, then hand-soldered and tested them with reused cells and a custom BMS. Modules slide into a keyed rack that only fits one way, and one button drives a screen that rotates when you flip the unit.
Almost everything is made in house: parts are laser cut and bent, then assembled without welding, which keeps production fast, repeatable and repairable. That puts the 700 W unit at about €272 to make, against a target price of €500 to €600.
U:NIT won the Business Potential award at the Ecodesign Award 2025 by OVAM and Vlaanderen Circulair, and was shown at WONDER Creativity Festival in Kortrijk.
View projectRendering
By rethinking conventional wiring infrastructure, Niko Hush is designed for long-term use, modularity and sustainable change. Because it is a confidential client project, we can only share a glimpse.
View projectTopology optimisation
FPV freestyle pilots fly low, fast and at the limit, so hard crashes are normal. A broken frame costs a day of flying. GenAero was a two-week research project: a first step towards a frame that absorbs the impact.
In Fusion 360 we defined the load cases, kept motor and propeller zones clear, reserved space for camera, electronics and battery, and enforced symmetry. After more than 50 studies we chose the best balance of weight, stiffness and safety.
We built a Charpy test setup and broke bars in ABS, PLA, PETG and TPU at different infills and wall thicknesses. Beyond roughly 28% infill and 2.4 mm walls the gain flattens out, and PLA and ABS clearly beat PETG.
Our first electroplating tests put a copper layer on printed parts. One bar takes three to five hours in the bath and every variable matters, but it paid off: 7.4% more impact resistance for PLA and 5.3% for PETG.
View projectVisualisation
View projectA facade is something you look at, so for people who cannot see it a city’s heritage stays out of reach. We wanted to change that for Veurne, starting with two landmarks on the Grote Markt: the city hall and the pump.
We flew a drone around both buildings and used photogrammetry to rebuild them in 3D. Those models were 3D printed as tactile objects, so anyone can explore the facade with their hands.
We pitched City Feelings to the jury of the Prijs Focus Aarde and finished fourth. The prizes were handed out at the Royal Palace in Brussels.
View projectGrasshopper
The whole paddle is generated in Grasshopper. A photo of the swimmer’s hand is processed into an outline, reconstructed in 3D and turned into a paddle shape. Kangaroo relaxes the surface around the hand, and a final step places the cutouts before the result is exported for printing.
Only two parts: a parametric paddle in polyamide, made to measure for each hand, and a standard silicone strap. That keeps the custom part where it matters and the rest simple: the paddle at €7–€20 internally and €20–€70 externally, the strap at just €1–€3.
Every paddle can be tuned: support for the fingers, ring finger, palm and wrist, and the size and number of cutouts, so the balance between drag, flex and weight fits the swimmer.
Printed, strapped on and tested in the pool.
View projectProduct engineering
A complete RC car with its own transmitter: a tubular space frame, independent suspension and a full drivetrain, every printed part designed around the limits and strengths of FDM printing.
To make the car buildable by anyone, we created a step-by-step building guide. Each step shows exactly which parts you need, from printed pieces to standard components like a servomotor and an M2 screw, and where they go.
Writing the manual challenged us to think bigger. We worked it out into a startup concept: people print their own RC car at home and combine it with standard parts they buy, like motors, electronics and screws. Open, repairable and much more personal than a car off the shelf.
The software studio Aeon Bonjé and I run next to our studies. We build tools, systems and templates that help creators make their own games in Fortnite, and do commission work for brands, agencies and creators.
Aeon and I were always looking for side projects next to our studies. We loved studying, but wanted an extra challenge: something of our own, the kind of thing you keep thinking about right before you fall asleep.
Before Euphoriax we tried three other business lines, mostly consumer products. Building them step by step, we realised none felt truly our own. Physical products are also heavily regulated, while software felt like the wild west, and it cost nothing to start. So we gave it a shot.
More and more platforms let players publish their own games. Fortnite and Roblox may be made for kids, but building games on them is hard because every platform has its own scripting. And people want to build games, because they can earn money with them.
In February 2024 we made our first game, learning every step: build an MVP, see if it gets players, build on it. None of our first four games really took off, but every one taught us something. Since then we have built complete games, from projects with big YouTubers to our own: Escape Your Job [ROGUELIKE], a game we designed and built entirely ourselves: a co-op escape roguelike for 1 to 4 players with 25 unique rooms, 7 special abilities, a mini tycoon and saved progress. Since its launch in August 2025 it has been played more than 70,000 times, for over 3.2 million minutes.
There were no tutorials for this, so we started a dev vlog on a fresh YouTube channel showing how we made our games. It took off: lots of people were stuck on the same problems. We opened a Discord, kept posting free guides and a community grew around it.
Some files and 3D models were only unlocked by inviting three friends, who in turn invited their friends; people even made videos about it. Then we launched premium systems on our own webstore on Patreon: more advanced tools that give creators better metrics and more income.
The night we put our first system online, Aeon headed to the gym. Ten minutes later I called him: three sales in fifteen minutes. Maybe seventy euros in total, but real buyers had just approved our MVP. Over the next six months we woke up to sales from Brazil, the UAE and beyond.
We kept building: projects with real impact like Virtual Donors, work with big American YouTubers, and commission work where we learned to negotiate and deliver a stress-free service.
Even during exams, what had to be done got done. Running Euphoriax taught me project management, understanding a market, working with freelancers and our own employee, bookkeeping, finance, marketing and negotiating, far more than reading about it ever could.
One real organ donor can save eight lives. Register as a donor in real life, unlock a Fortnite game, and when you are eliminated your teammates get eight extra lives. With Euphoriax we built the Fortnite part.
AKQA Brussels turned losing a life in a game into a reminder of a real one. Players who register as organ donors unlock a Fortnite game: when they die, their teammates get eight extra lives, one for every life a real donor can save. The campaign ran in Minecraft, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Fortnite.
The Fortnite game was entirely designed by Euphoriax: we designed and programmed the whole experience in Unreal Editor for Fortnite and helped shape the concept. We also design our own games, like Escape Your Job [ROGUELIKE], with more than 70,000 plays and 3.2 million minutes played.
AKQA reported a 68% rise in donor registrations, and the campaign won a Webby, two Clios and a Gold Effie in Belgium. Images: AKQA Brussels and Reborn to be Alive.
A free alternative to paid video editors: a full editor with media library, multi-track timeline, captions and colour correction, without a subscription.
Two apps I designed, built and published myself: Codr, a code editor & compiler with built-in lessons to learn programming, and FN Island Metrics, customisable home-screen widgets showing a Fortnite island’s live player count.
A visual concept that helps SD Worx employees find the right documents and the right people in 80 years of company knowledge, without leaving their existing workflow.
SD Worx has 80 years of knowledge and documents spread across different systems. Which information can you trust, and who should you contact? That was our brief at the Tectonic Hackathon.
Graffify is a visual concept that shows employees which documents they can trust and who to contact, so they make better-informed decisions without leaving the workflow they already use.
We qualified at Hangar K in Kortrijk, reached the semi-finals at Viernulvier in Ghent, and later heard from the jury that we finished third in our category, out of more than 800 participants.
I’m Rune, a 22-year-old Belgian student currently studying industrial design in Kortrijk. Driven to improve a little every day, I believe that with a disciplined mindset and the will to grow, you can achieve anything, as long as you fully commit and believe in what you’re doing.
NXSiemens NX
SolidWorks
Fusion 360
Rhino
Grasshopper
KeyShot
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Unreal Engine
RoboDK
RStudioTechnical secondary school (now Talent-is Campus Engineering). For my final project in 6th year I turned photos of buildings into 3D models and 3D-printed them as tactile models, so blind and visually impaired people can feel the architecture.
Bachelor in product design: research, concept, CAD, rendering and prototyping.
Founded Euphoriax together in Veurne and built it into a company I’m proud to co-own. The community grew to more than 10,000 members and a donor campaign was featured on VTM Nieuws.
Orbitec won the Additive Manufacturing Student Challenge at Sonaca in Gosselies.
U:NIT, a modular power station designed to be repaired instead of replaced. Vlaanderen Circulair ↗
Started the bridging programme towards a master’s degree as industrial design engineer.
Designed, built and published two Android apps.
A fast-growing free video editor for Windows. shotso.com ↗
Hackathon for SD Worx, built under time pressure. LinkedIn post ↗
Working towards industrial design engineer, and building in my free time.
Open to internships, collaborations and ambitious side projects.
