Mads Aasvik

Mads is interested in mechatronics and different CAD-related activities. He also does a lot of 3D printing and prototype building.

Posts by Mads Aasvik

Arduino as a Stepper Motor Controller – Speed and Position Control With a Potentiometer

June 26, 2019

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

Not long ago, we published a blog post related to this topic. The difference is that the previous blog post used a rotary encoder to jog the stepper motor. This time we’ll swap out the rotary encoder with an ordinary…

Arduino as a Stepper Motor Controller – Jogging Using a Rotary Encoder

May 29, 2019

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

In this post we’ll show you a simple example on how to use a rotary encoder to move a stepper motor in real time, aka. jogging. This will be done using a standard stepper motor driver, but without any shields…

Arduino FFT pt. 2: Improving the Hardware for Real-time Analysis

March 20, 2019

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

One and a half year back we wrote an introductory blog post about FFT and Arduino, which today is one of our most popular blog posts. This time we’ll upgrade the hardware to a Teensy 3.2 and see which advantages…

Avoiding Coincident Face Rendering Artifacts Using Dielectric Priority in Autodesk Fusion 360

March 5, 2019

Mads Aasvik

Software Tutorials

This is a short tutorial on how to avoid unwanted rendering behavior for coincident faces in Fusion 360. However, this is a principle that probably will work elsewhere as well, given you have access to similar dielectric priority options. One…

How to Easily Model Wires and Tubes in Autodesk Fusion 360

January 14, 2019

Mads Aasvik

Software Tutorials

In this blog post we’ll show you how to create wires and tubes in different ways. We’ll start with laying everything on a flat surface, then on an uneven surface and lastly mix things up a bit more. These methods…

LED Matrix with Rolling Particles – Overview and Enclosure

December 6, 2018

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects, Teensy Projects

Making a device with an LED matrix is something we have wanted to do for a while now, and now we’ve finally gotten around doing it. The way we usually do it with these kinds of quick-builds is to use…

A First Impression of Tinkercad Circuits

November 9, 2018

Mads Aasvik

First Impressions - Software

We have written about Tinkercad on our blog before. This is a free CAD-platform for beginners which is very easy to use, but doesn’t have many features. Recently, we became aware of something called Tinkercad Circuits (“TC” henceforth), which is…

Arduino Tutorial: Avoiding the Overflow Issue When Using millis() and micros()

October 11, 2018

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

One of our most popular blog posts right now this is called Arduino Tutorial: Using millis() Instead of delay(). Here we discuss how to use millis() and micros() and their major advantages compared to delay(). Not a great analogy to…

Building a Remotely Controlled / Autonomous Land Vehicle Platform – pt. 3: Electronics and Remote Control Firmware

September 19, 2018

Mads Aasvik

Mechatronics, Teensy Projects

Previous parts in this series: Parts and Design Chassis Building In this post we’ll look at the electronics and the code and libraries used to control the vehicle. Motherboard PCB To tie the motorcontrollers, Teensy and receiver together, we chose…

Making a Casing for an Embedded System Space Invaders Game

September 12, 2018

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects

A few months ago we wrote a blog post about a course in embedded systems for beginners where the goal was to make Space Invaders on an embedded system. We thought it would be fun to create a casing for…

The Automatic Pet Feeder

July 4, 2018

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Arduino Projects, Mechatronics

Many pet feeders already exist, but we wanted to make one ourselves. The author of this blog post has a dog with separation anxiety which makes it difficult for him to be left alone in the house. A small machine…

Building a Remotely Controlled/Autonomous Land Vehicle Platform – pt. 2: Chassis Building

June 14, 2018

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics, Teensy Projects

About three months ago we wrote a post about a vehicle platform we’re building. Since then we’ve mostly waited for parts, primarily the aluminium plates. Now that the parts have arrived, we’ve started building the vehicle chassis. Current State The…

Electronics 101 pt. 4: RL and RC Circuits

May 16, 2018

Mads Aasvik

Theoretical Tutorials

Previous posts in this series: Electronics 101: Voltage, Current and Resistance Electronics 101 pt. 2: Kirchhoff’s Laws Electronics 101 pt. 3: Applying the Laws If you’re unsure about how capacitors and/or inductors work, check out: An Intro to Capacitors An…

Arduino Tutorial: LCD Displays pt. 3 – Graphic Displays

April 26, 2018

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

Previous parts in this series: Part 1 – HD44780 Character Displays Part 2 – The Serial Backpack The next natural step in this series is arguably some kind of graphics display. We looked around in our gadget inventory and found…

Building a Remotely Controlled/Autonomous Land Vehicle Platform – pt. 1: Parts and Design

March 15, 2018

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Projects, Mechatronics

Here at NC we try to always have some fun internal projects going on to keep our creativity sharpened and to test out new ideas. This is one of those projects. We’re planning on building a remotely controlled vehicle which…