Projects
Drawing Machine – part 1
All the people studying at ELbygget NTNU Gløshaugen knows that it lack some real interactive art. So the last couple of years we have been thinking about filling that gap. And after dumping over Hector, and the video under, we had…
Building a Simple Laser Engraver
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Inspired by a post at Instructables, and by the need of a device capable of engraving at creations made out of wood, we decided to build a cheap laser engraver. Video Hardware It consists of parts from two old DVD-players, two…
LaserKey v.0.1
LaserKey is a custom controller designed to control a special laser software on a PC (Powered by Pangolin). Since I have done quite many laser shows now, the need for a custom controller has grown. So I decided to make…
Creating a mini-Impressor
“An Impressor is something that impresses, mostly by flashing, making noise, smelling, or slamming. It has has strong roots in the Omega association and is required for Phaestum and other Omega festivities.” Each year, Omega Workshop holds a building course where a…
Making some Orthodynamic Headphones
Inspired by this post, I decided to give it a “quick and dirty” try myself:) From Deal Extreme I ordered a “Stylish On-Ear Headset”, and from eBay I ordered theribbon tweeters. Total cost around $50. These headphones use drivers that are Orthodynamic.…
Wood Block Clock
Inspired by a clock at IKEA with a 7-segment dispaly behind a solid wood front , I wanted to build something like that myself. And with a led matrix from ebay, a microcontroller and a few more components this sort…
A Game Show System
Part 1 Myself, Are Halvorsen and Marius Gundersen built a Game Show System! The system is mainly for a quiz show with Ingeniørspillet at Trondheims Student Society (http://www.samfundet.no/). The event is april 14, and if you are in town I really recommend going (information) =)…
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Inverted Propelled Pendulum
The plan is to make a “2-degrees of freedom inverted pendulum” realized with 3 or 4 RC plane motors and an 5-degrees IMU (Wikipedia). But first, I decided to make a “one-degree” pendulum to test the motor controllers and some…
The Floppy Blaster
In the course “TTK5155 – Industrial and Embedded Computer Systems” spring 2010, Thomas Tøkje and I built a couple of extra nodes to the Ping Pong game project. This is one of the extras who’s mission was to add sound…
Coloring the Keytar
The next step is coloring. I am using a leather color and Liberon Finishing Oil. Painted backplate Coloring The head without oil Applying finishing oil Headstock
A Keytar is born
For those of you not knowing what a keytar is, check out:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keytar!