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The DIY 3D Printer Life – Part 1: Cooling

March 17, 2017

About a year ago we bought a Prusa i3 printer from Geeetech. At the time, it was probably the cheapest printer on the DIY market at 249$. As expected, the printer had several areas which needed improvement. In this blog…

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…

Hacking an Old VHS Player

February 24, 2017

Anders Strand

Arduino Projects

As a part of a new project, we wanted to use an old VHS player as a trigger for various actions. We wanted the system to trigger when a VHS cassette was pushed into the player, as if one wanted…

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…

Do It Yourself: Bose QC15 / QC25 Bluetooth Module

December 15, 2016

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, Maker Tutorials

The newest Bose noise cancelling headset, the QC35, has wireless Bluetooth connection. They are also quite pricey. Many already own a pair of QC15 or QC25. If you’re one of these people and want to upgrade to wireless connection without…

Using a Logic Analyzer: An Important Tool in Every System Designer’s Toolkit!

December 1, 2016

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials

A Logic Analyzer is an instrument that records (and displays) multiple digital signals. This instrument gives you several important benefits, such as timing analysis and protocol decoding. You can also get more “general assistance“, often in the form of clever signal triggering,…

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…

The Wake-a-tron 3000

November 17, 2016

Anders Strand

Arduino Projects, Mechatronics, Raspberry Pi Projects

Getting up in the morning, well, it kinda sucks. The Wake-a-tron 3000 is here to change waking up forever. It is designed to both make you wake up comfortably, but also guarantee that you do not snooze and oversleep. But…

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…

Coffee Timer part 3: Enclosures

November 2, 2016

Anders Strand

3D Printing Projects, micro:bit Projects

In the two previous posts in this series, we can read about how a coffee machine was hacked using the BBC micro:bit, and the options for low power wireless with this device. In this post we will take a look…

Focus Box part 3 – Packaging and Summary

October 26, 2016

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, Teensy Projects

This blog post series is about the creation of the “Focus Box”. A box that creates “noisy ambient sounds” to mask out background noise to enhance personal productivity. In the first blog post you can read more about the “big idea”. And…

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