Finishing a 3D-printed part: ABS smoothing and coloring without chemicals

When printing with a FDM printer, the surface becomes kind of “liny”. But what to do if you want a smooth part?

Creating a 3D printed spare part

How can you use a 3D printer to make a spare part? This post will show you how a new part for a shower handle holder was designed, printed and assembled.

Impressions from a couple of months with the new Solidoodle 3D printer

Here are some of our first impressions after a couple of months with the Solidoodle 3 3D printer.

Hydroponic Gardening, Part 5: Lighting

In this post we will look at how we solved some of the challenges with artificial lightning in the window-farming setup.

Hydroponic Gardening, Part 4: Plants and Nutrition

Fancy system, but what about life? How should I plant a plant in the substrates? What should the nutrition PH be? What kind of nutrition should the plants be fed with?

Hydroponic Gardening, Part 3: Water Lift System

This is the part of the system that supplies the plants with the nutrient solutions. This can be done in many ways, but I’m using an “air lifting method” accomplished with a common aquarium pump.

Hydroponic Gardening, Part 2: The Pots

In this post I show how I modified common Ikea pots to take part in a hydroponic system.

Welding the frame

Automated beer brewing – part 2

After a period of planning, reading numerous forum posts about brewing and scouring the websites of a range of chinese valve manufacturers, we have finally started the building process.

Hydroponic Gardening, Part 1: An Overview

Hydroponic gardening, also called hydro-farming, is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil.

Drawing Machine Time Lapse from Technoport Access Water

A time lapse video from Technoport Access Water!

Preparing the Drawing Machine to Technoport Access Water

We are now preparing to have our Drawing Machine exhibited on Technoport Talks: Access Water conference that will find place in NTNU Realfagsbygget tomorrow (26.sept 2012). The Drawing Machine will stand outside of R8 from 08:30 to approx 13.00. If you are nearby you could catch the Drawing machine in action!

Initial sketch of the frame for the system

Automated beer brewing – part 1

First of all, hi! During the coming months, my self and Bernt-Johan will be joining Ragnar and Gunnar at Norwegian Creations. Here we will try to share some of the projects we are working on between studying, and running our very own start-up. That’s probably enough about us, let’s get back to beer.

The machine

Tea Dipping Machine

Are Halvorsen and I decided to build a machine to prove the ease of making tea compared to coffee.

LaserKey v.1.1

The control box for LaserKey needed an upgrade…
This is a post about the upgrade, and how the system worked when I created a laser show on AutoLasers concert last weekend (including a video) =)

The Game Show System 2012

The Game Show System we developed for an Ingeniørspillet-quiz at Trondheims Student Society was used again this year.
Inside you will find some pictures and a video from the show :)