Projects

Woodworking Projects

For an upcoming boat trip, one of our makers was challenged to bring a home made instrument. After some doodling and googling of what to make, we discovered this great travel ukulele design by Daniel Hulbert at circuitsandstrings.wordpress.com. It was clear that we had…

Repairing a NAD C370 Amplifier – The Slow Start Protection Module Problem

July 5, 2017

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Misc. Other Projects

A very common problem with NAD amplifiers (here: C370) is that it becomes very slow to start after some years (10+). The time between power-on and deactivation of the protection increases to several minutes! And why is this happening? In this…

Building a Quick & Dirty Foam Cutter

June 21, 2017

Woodworking Projects

Foam is a great and cheap material for various creations. This time we needed to cut some EVA foam into shapes for a prototype we are creating. We were not 100% sure that a hot-wire foam cutter would be the…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 5: A Video from the Building

June 15, 2017

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials, Misc. Other Projects

We have through several posts now followed the making of a rather large Kossel Delta 3D-printer: Pt. 1: Parts and Planning Pt. 2: Building Update Pt. 3: Electronics and Wiring Pt. 4: Modifying the Effector Here is a a “Making of”-video…

Do It Yourself: SNMP Temperature Monitoring System

June 9, 2017

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Here at Norwegian Creations we occasionally need to monitor the temperature of a system. Sometimes we have done this with our DMM with data logging capabilities. But it’s a bad idea to impound our DMM’s for long periods. Therefore we need…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 4: Modifying the Effector

May 16, 2017

Let’s take a closer look at the custom modification we’ve done to our Kossel build’s effector. But first, you might be interested in the previous editions in this blog series: Pt. 1: Parts and Planning Pt. 2: Building Update Pt.…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 3: Electronics and Wiring

May 5, 2017

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

It’s been a long wait, but finally all of the parts for our printer have arrived. As shown in this series’ last blog post, we’ve already kickstarted mounting the frame and most of the mechanical parts. The next assembly job…

Customizing a Retractable Power Strip

April 26, 2017

Arduino Projects, LED Projects

3D Printing Projects

For our new office we bought a couple of used tables with inset retractable power strips (an old version of the Evoline Port). One of these had a VGA socket in addition to all the power sockets. Instead of the…

Behind the scenes: “Blåfrost 2016”

March 22, 2017

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

This is a behind the scenes post from something quite technically manageable, and at the same time visually very powerful! The case is an interactive installation that turns on the lights and starts up the internal smoke machine whenever…

The DIY 3D Printer Life – Part 1: Cooling

March 17, 2017

3D Printing Projects

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…

Hacking an Old VHS Player

February 24, 2017

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…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 2: Building Update

February 8, 2017

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…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 1: Parts and Planning

January 11, 2017