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

October 11, 2018
Mads Aasvik
Arduino Tutorials
3 Comments
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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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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Controlling a Camera Shutter Remotely with an Arduino

July 20, 2018
Ragnar Ranøyen Homb
Arduino Projects, Arduino Tutorials
To take a picture on the exact moment you want to can be a hassle. But most cameras have the possibility to use an external shutter remote. Connecting a regular button here does not help us, but by creating a…
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Makefiles: Part 2 — Makefiles Can Make Webpages?

July 11, 2018
Torstein Grindvik
Software Tutorials
1 Comment
In Makefiles: Part 1 — A Gentle Introduction we learned a few tricks concerning the basics of Makefiles. Today, we will learn some of the more confusing symbols used in Makefiles’ syntax, commonly seen around the web in Makefiles. We will use…
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The Automatic Pet Feeder

July 4, 2018
Mads Aasvik
3D Printing Projects, Arduino Projects, Mechatronics
3 Comments
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…
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Makefiles: Part 1 — A Gentle Introduction

June 28, 2018
Torstein Grindvik
Software Tutorials
2 Comments
Let’s look at the notorious Makefile today! We will ease into it and keep things clean! This first part will look at creating a makefile which does not do anything significant. Rather, we will create rules (which actions in makefiles…
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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…
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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…
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Arduino Tutorial: LCD Displays pt. 3 – Graphic Displays

April 26, 2018
Mads Aasvik
Arduino Tutorials
1 Comment
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…
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Building a Remotely Controlled/Autonomous Land Vehicle Platform – pt. 1: Parts and Design

March 15, 2018
Mads Aasvik
Arduino Projects, Mechatronics
2 Comments
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…
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Arduino Tutorial: LCD Displays pt. 2 – The Serial Backpack

March 8, 2018
Mads Aasvik
Arduino Tutorials
6 Comments
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…
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