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 Tutorial: LCD Displays pt. 2 – The Serial Backpack

March 8, 2018

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

Last summer we wrote a blog post (which we recommend reading before continuing) about how you can hook up an HD44780 character display to an Arduino and program it using the LiquidCrystal Arduino library. Back then we had to use…

Logging Vibrations on Our 3D Printer Desk

February 8, 2018

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects

Thanks to The Future Group we currently have this sweet Xsens MTi 30 AHRS at our office. We wanted to use this to log vibrations on our home made 3D printer desk while printing. We also wanted to apply damping…

Creating a Command Line Interface in Arduino’s Serial Monitor

February 2, 2018

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

We briefly touched upon this topic in our post about Arduino serial input, but inspired by this excellent tutorial by Stephen Brennan we thought it would be fun to create a more rigid command line interface (aka. CLI) for the…

Programming Digital RGB LED Strips with Arduino and the FastLED Library

January 16, 2018

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials,

Using Arduino to simplify programming is nothing new. There are Arduino libraries for almost everything, and with one or more of these in hand you can make awesome gadgets, even as a clueless beginner. Programming LEDs is no exception, and…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 7: Design Files

January 5, 2018

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects

The previous parts of this series are: Pt. 1: Parts and Planning Pt. 2: Building Update Pt. 3: Electronics and Wiring Pt. 4: Modifying the Effector Pt. 5: Video from the Building Pt. 6: Corner Covers By popular demand we’ve published…

This Year’s NC Christmas Card

December 22, 2017

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects

Christmas is approaching fast and every year we like to get creative with our Christmas cards to Norwegian Creations’ clients, partners, friends and family. This year we decided to do something fresh and physical with our Christmas card routine. A…

Arduino Tutorial: Serial Inputs

December 6, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials,

In almost every Arduino tutorial we’ve written we’ve used serial output for either printing text to terminal or plotting values. It is also invaluable as a debugging tool. We have rarely written about serial input, however, which is what this…

An Intro to Boolean Algebra and Logic Gates – Part 2

November 28, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

In the previous part of this series we gave you an intro to Boolean algebra and Logic Gates, which incidentally happens to be the title of this blog post as well. This time around we’ll take things a bit further…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 6: Corner Covers

November 8, 2017

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects

Our custom Kossel delta 3D printer is continually being upgraded. Let’s take a look at the latest addition to the printer. Here are the previous posts in this series: Pt. 1: Parts and Planning Pt. 2: Building Update Pt. 3:…

An Intro to Boolean Algebra and Logic Gates – Part 1

October 31, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

This is part 1 of a planned short blog series about Boolean algebra and logic gates. In this first part we’ll introduce you to simple Boolean algebra, which is very basic, and then look at how one or more logic…

Getting Started with Programming – Part 8: Typedef and Structs

October 12, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Software Tutorials

Previous parts of the Getting Started with Programming series: Part 1: Skimming the Surface Part 2: Conditional Statements Part 3: Loops Part 4: Arrays and Lists Part 5: Functions and Scope Part 6: Defines and Random Numbers Part 7: Pointers…

Arduino Tutorial: Using millis() Instead of delay()

September 5, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials,

A well known Arduino function is delay() which pauses the program for an amount of milliseconds specified as parameter. millis(), on the other hand, is a function that returns the amount of milliseconds that have passed since program start. At…

Trondheim Maker Faire 2017

September 1, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Events

This year’s Trondheim Maker Faire was held last weekend at Solsiden in downtown Trondheim, just like last year. In this blog post we’ll show off a few images from the event. We saw this vehicle made by SK…

Parametric Modelling in Fusion 360 – Making a Triangle Box

August 23, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Software Tutorials

Last year we wrote a blog post where we showed how to use parametric modelling to make a simple box. Someone commented that they would like to know how to make a triangle box as well. We thought it would…

Sculptris: First Impressions and 3D Printing

August 17, 2017

Mads Aasvik

First Impressions - Software, Software Tutorials

Sculptris is a sculpting 3D modelling software developed by Pixelogic who also have developed the more famous ZBrush. Unlike ZBrush however, Sculptris is completely free! We haven’t looked at Sculptris before, so let’s give you our first impressions before going…