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Using a simple Arduino to measure capacitor value

August 14, 2019

As you probably read in this post, capacitance is a measure of the ability to store energy. They are among other things used in rectifiers, as bypass devices and in analog filter circuits. They are super-important components and critical for…

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 – Technical Insights and Finishing Touches

December 14, 2018

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects, Teensy Projects

In our latest blog post we wrote about the enclosure on this “LED Matrix with Rolling Particles”. But how is it to use? And what happens on the inside? Continue to read this post to find out! What Does It…

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…

The 2018 Christmas Card

November 29, 2018

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects

Last year we made a Christmas card heavily influenced by our fields of expertise and what we deliver. This year was no exception! What’s new this year, among other things, is the different design, and that there exists several variants…

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 Making of a Smart Mailbox: Part 1 — An Overview

August 29, 2018

Torstein Grindvik

Misc. Other Projects

We’d like to be notified when (physical) mail arrives. Let’s do just that! Project Goals What do we want out of this? First of all, we want to be notified when getting mail. There are many ways to do this.…

Makefiles: Part 3 — Test, Lint, Deploy!

August 16, 2018

Torstein Grindvik

Software Tutorials

Be sure to check out Makefiles: Part 1 — A Gentle Introduction and Makefiles: Part 2 — Makefiles Can Make Webpages?. This time we want to be able to: run make test to run a few tests on our code, run…

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