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Our Drawing Machine at Trondheim Maker Faire 2015

September 9, 2015

3D Printing Projects, Arduino Projects, Drawing Machines, Woodworking Projects

In addition to our Reaction Game, vi also had a drawing machine on display at this year’s Trondheim Maker Faire. The machine exhibited in our tent at Trondheim Maker Faire 2015 This drawing machine is designed to draw on paper…

Wake On LAN enabled button

July 24, 2015

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Misc. Other Projects

Sometimes you have the need for a device that “just works”. This time we were in need of a small embedded device that could power on a computer over a LAN cable. Luckily there is already a well established standard called Wake…

A Behind the Scenes Look at the Building Process of Our Interactive LED Lamp

June 24, 2015

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

Click here for a short intro post about this project or here for a more detailed post about how we designed and built the lamp.

Designing and Building an Interactive LED Lamp – Technical Insights

June 10, 2015

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

Be sure to also read the short intro post of this project here and you can watch a behind-the-scenes video here! Sometimes, when we need to learn how to do something, we create a project out of it. This was one of…

Our Interactive LED Lamp – An Intro

May 20, 2015

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

We’ve had a lamp hanging from the ceiling over our heads the last few months. This is a lamp we have made ourselves containing 512 individually controllable LEDs, a bunch of 3D-printed pieces and lots of cotton. It is of…

An introduction to CNC machining and the making of a headphone holder

May 13, 2015

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials, Woodworking Projects

It took me 1 hour to design the model, and it takes 1 hour to machine it using a CNC. Why does it take 5 hours total?? 1 + 1 equals 2, NOT 5!? In this post we will explain the…

Building a CNC Machine

April 29, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Mechatronics, Woodworking Projects

This is the first post in a series of four where we’ll be talking about CNC related stuff, mainly because CNC milling is awesome! For a long time we at NC have been dreaming of having easy access to a…

Making a Ping-pong Ball Visualizer System for Technoport – Pt. 2: The Building Phase

April 22, 2015

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics, Woodworking Projects

Be sure to read part 1 where we talk about the design phase of this installation! Mechanical and Structural CNC-Milling As in this project, we had to utilize our new CNC-milling machine, and the upright plywood pieces on the…

Making a Ping-pong Ball Visualizer System for Technoport – Pt. 1: The Design Phase

April 15, 2015

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics, Woodworking Projects

This project is really something else. Technoport 2015 hosted a Live Crowdfunding event in Storsalen in Studentersamfundet, Trondheim March 18th 2015. For this event we were tasked to create a pysical installation which would be set up on the stage…

Making an Interactive Multimedia Installation for Technoport – Pt. 2: The Building Phase

April 9, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Projects, LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

Be sure to read part 1 where we talk about the design phase of this installation! Mechanical and Structural The new CNC mill in our Makerspace proved vital when building this installation. Milling the parts (they had to be…

Making an Interactive Multimedia Installation for Technoport – Pt. 1: The Design Phase

March 26, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Projects, LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

For Technoport 2015 we were tasked to create an installation which would be displayed in the lobby at the event. Its main task would be to work as a gathering point and an ice-breaker for the attendees. We wanted it…

Making a Log Book Holder

February 25, 2015

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Woodworking Projects

Every workshop has different tools. And several of those tools have a lot of options when it comes to using them. For example, a 3D-printer can be used with several different materials and temperatures, while when running a CNC, the…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 5: Finale

November 26, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, Drawing Machines

Making this machine was really fun and rewarding. We learned a lot on the way and we also got great feedback from the users at Trondheim Maker Faire and several other places we’ve exhibited the plotter. There’s still much to…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 4: Software and firmware

November 7, 2014

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Drawing Machines

Getting an image to the machine from somewhere else might at first seem like the most challenging aspect of a drawing machine like this. However, as soon as you get a grasp of some basic fundamentals, the road from some…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 3: Electronics

October 29, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, Drawing Machines

This post will explain the electronics taking part of the big Plotter. First we will explain the whole system: what it consists of and how it’s all connected together, before we go more in depth on some of the components.…

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