Last week I did an upgrade of the LaserKey. The temporary control box that I made in the last edition is now replaced with a more sturdy plastic box. Part 1: The upgrade Mounted switches and LEDs The Jack plug for the…
You can read more about the system and how it was developed here. Just as last year, Gunnar was controlling the light =) NTNUs Rector Torbjørn Digernes Default lighting correct answer Wrong answer Focus on the answering team Thinking… Logo in…
The Drawing Machine is now creating images at the Technoport Conference. This is happening at Rica Nidelven Hotel in Trondheim. Check it out! It will stand there until Thursday 19 April. Magnus Strand Helberg from the Youth City Council, handing over the wishes from the…
Skift Design is making an installation for the Technoport conference in Trondheim, and as a part of that they wanted a drawbot. They contacted Omega Workshop at NTNU, and got in contact with me and Gunnar who was actually making one already! What needs to…
All the people studying at ELbygget NTNU Gløshaugen knows that it lack some real interactive art. So the last couple of years we have been thinking about filling that gap. And after dumping over Hector, and the video under, we had…
Inspired by a post at Instructables, and by the need of a device capable of engraving at creations made out of wood, we decided to build a cheap laser engraver. Video Hardware It consists of parts from two old DVD-players, two…
LaserKey is a custom controller designed to control a special laser software on a PC (Powered by Pangolin). Since I have done quite many laser shows now, the need for a custom controller has grown. So I decided to make…
“An Impressor is something that impresses, mostly by flashing, making noise, smelling, or slamming. It has has strong roots in the Omega association and is required for Phaestum and other Omega festivities.” Each year, Omega Workshop holds a building course where a…
As a school project in 2008 I made an electronic yatzy game. The drawing I made, with specifications: “The drawing” The black switch is the mode button, while the other red buttons are dice switches. The documentation I made (sorry,…
Inspired by this post, I decided to give it a “quick and dirty” try myself:) From Deal Extreme I ordered a “Stylish On-Ear Headset”, and from eBay I ordered theribbon tweeters. Total cost around $50. These headphones use drivers that are Orthodynamic.…
Inspired by a clock at IKEA with a 7-segment dispaly behind a solid wood front , I wanted to build something like that myself. And with a led matrix from ebay, a microcontroller and a few more components this sort…
Part 1 Myself, Are Halvorsen and Marius Gundersen built a Game Show System! The system is mainly for a quiz show with Ingeniørspillet at Trondheims Student Society (http://www.samfundet.no/). The event is april 14, and if you are in town I really recommend going (information) =)…
The plan is to make a “2-degrees of freedom inverted pendulum” realized with 3 or 4 RC plane motors and an 5-degrees IMU (Wikipedia). But first, I decided to make a “one-degree” pendulum to test the motor controllers and some…