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Getting Started with Programming – Part 7: Pointers in C

February 2, 2017

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…

Coffee Timer part 2: Low Power Wireless on the BBC micro:bit

October 19, 2016

Anders Strand

3D Printing Projects, micro:bit Projects

Introduction The BBC micro:bit device is based around the nRF51 SoC (System on Chip), which has a built in 2.4 GHz radio. A natural progression of the coffee timer project was to make the sensor device broadcast its information over…

Embedded Tutorial: Basic Serial Communication

October 12, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

If you’re going to design embedded hardware you have know your way around the most common wired digital communication protocols and standards. These protocols and standards define how different parts of an embedded system communicate with each other, for instance…

Focus Box part 2: The Internals

October 4, 2016

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, Teensy Projects

In this post we will go through the inner workings of the Focus Box. What is creating the magic? You can read more about the background for this project in the blog post found here. The Goal of the Internals The job…

Coffee Timer part 1: The First Prototype Based on the BBC micro:bit

September 28, 2016

Anders Strand

3D Printing Projects, micro:bit Projects

The first prototype mounted on the coffee maker. This version displayed minutes as dots on the display. A button push revealed the time in numbers. Introduction In our office, we have a coffee maker capable of making large amounts of…

An Intro to Digital Multimeters (DMMs)

September 21, 2016

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials

Here at Norwegian Creations we use digital multimeters (DMMs) a lot. In fact, this is an essential tool to have if you want to play with electronics. In this blog post a brief introduction and operation of a digital multimeter…

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