Modular synth teaching rig
A patchable Eurorack panel that turns signal flow into hands-on lessons — oscillators, filters, and envelopes you can hear.
Musician Creative Technologist Engineering & Robotics Educator
Engineering & Robotics Educator · Creative Technologist · Musician
Learn. Create. Play.
Bill Van Loo builds, teaches, and presents across engineering, music, and making — connecting tools and ideas to help people learn, create, and play.
About
Twenty years across the bench, the field, and the stage.
Bill Van Loo has spent two decades in engineering and robotics education — coaching FIRST (FLL, FTC, FRC) and VEX teams, and building curriculum for classrooms from K–12 through college. Alongside that runs a parallel life as a maker and electronic musician.
The throughline is connection: across disciplines, across tools, and across the physical and digital worlds. Van Loo Learning Design grew out of that work — building curriculum, tools, and professional development for engineering and creative-technology education.
Four pillars of the work
Engineering & Robotics Educator
Two decades coaching FIRST and VEX, and building classroom curriculum.
Explore →Creative Technologist
Wood, electronics, 3D printing, and code — connected across disciplines.
Explore →Musician
Electronic music, live performance, and sound as a teaching tool.
Explore →Learning Design
Curriculum and professional development for creative-technology education.
Explore →Featured projects
FTC field controller
An open-source scoring and timing controller for scrimmage fields, built so other coaches can run practice matches.
Engineering & Robotics Educator Creative Technologist
Powers-of-Ten classroom kit
A scale-and-measurement unit inspired by the Eames film. Retired after the 2023 curriculum refresh.
Learning Design Engineering & Robotics Educator
Van Loo Learning Design
Curriculum and PD for engineering and creative-technology education.