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

What Is FFT and How Can You Implement It on an Arduino?

August 10, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, , Theoretical Tutorials

In this blog post we’ll first briefly discuss Fourier Transform and FFT. Then we’ll show you one way to implement FFT on an Arduino. Fast Fourier Transform (aka. FFT) is an algorithm that computes Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). We’re not…

Arduino Tutorial: LCD Displays pt. 1 – HD44780 Character Displays

June 28, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

We have written plenty of Arduino Tutorials, but none of them have been about displays. So we decided to do something about that. This is the first of a planned three-part tutorial series on how to use various displays with…

Breadboard – What, Why and How?

May 26, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

Breadboard is an essential tool for every electronics engineer and maker. In this blog post we’ll talk about why we use breadboards and how they work. Breadboards come in many shapes and sizes What? A breadboard is a simple tool…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 4: Modifying the Effector

May 16, 2017

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics

Let’s take a closer look at the custom modification we’ve done to our Kossel build’s effector. But first, you might be interested in the previous editions in this blog series: Pt. 1: Parts and Planning Pt. 2: Building Update Pt.…

Customizing a Retractable Power Strip

April 26, 2017

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects

For our new office we bought a couple of used tables with inset retractable power strips (an old version of the Evoline Port). One of these had a VGA socket in addition to all the power sockets. Instead of the…

Opamps – pt. 2: The Real World

April 11, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

Two weeks ago we started a blog series about operational amplifiers aka. opamps (or op amps). We showed you what an opamp is, some of the things it can do and the importance of feedback. To ensure that everything was…

Opamps – pt. 1: The Basics

March 30, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

Operational amplifiers aka. opamps are electrical components that we haven’t previously touched upon in our blog. These components are important, though, so now we’re starting a series where we’ll introduce you to opamps and their usage. The opamp-topic can be…

State Machines and Arduino Implementation

March 3, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Maker Tutorials

When designing embedded systems, you more often than not should implement a proper state machine of some sorts. In this blog post we’ll explain what state machines are, compare a couple of types, look at the handy Huffman table and…

Using EEPROM to Store Data on the Arduino

February 17, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials,

When collecting or generating data and storing it on a microcontroller, like the one on an Arduino, the data will just be available while the microcontroller is powered. As soon as you pull the plug and the microcontroller loses power,…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 2: Building Update

February 8, 2017

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics

Four weeks ago we wrote about a 3D printer we’re building. Now we have started building it, and we thought it’d be cool to share some of it in this post. Various Discussions and Pictures of Stuff This image doesn’t…

Getting Started with Programming – Part 7: Pointers in C

February 2, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Software Tutorials

It’s been a while since the previous part of this series. This edition will take a side-step away from the regular Arduino/C++ and Python examples and look at the language C, which is quite similar to the Arduino/C++ language. This…

Electronics 101 pt. 3: Applying the Laws

January 25, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Theoretical Tutorials

Earlier we have written blog posts about both Ohm’s Law and Kirchhoff’s Laws. It’s time to put these in action combined to analyze simple DC circuits. Sounds fun, right!? Don’t worry, it’s pretty easy and straight forward, and we’ll walk…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 1: Parts and Planning

January 11, 2017

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics

Access to a 3D printer is very important for us in Norwegian Creations. Now we’ve decided that we want to upgrade our 3D printer park with a new big and fast printer. This time we’re going all out with a…

NC Blog Highlights 2010-2016

November 22, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Updates

Since the birth of the NC website in 2010 we have published over 140 blogposts. Many of these get kind of buried in a pile of other blogposts as they get older. So, to breathe some new life into some…

Initial Design of the Monsterplotter

November 9, 2016

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Drawing Machines

For a while now we’ve had a drawing machine in development with the following main features: It uses an airbrush to draw. The drawing area is something vertical such as a wall or a canvas. The size of this drawing…