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Introduction Some projects here at Norwegian Creations involves MCUs with a good selection of internal modules in hardware. But sometimes cost is very(!!) important, and much other things are not (how much RAM does your headlamp need?). So in cases…

Digital audio synthesis part 2: MIDI

July 5, 2022

As we could read about (and hear!) in post 1 about digital audio synthesis, it sounded “cheap” with only 8 bit sample size and ~15,6 kHz sampling rate. The goal of this post is to look more into the MIDI…

Digital audio synthesis part 1: The oscillator

March 18, 2022

Arduino Tutorials, Software Tutorials, Theoretical Tutorials

This is the first part in a blog post series where we break down different objects in digital audio synthesis. This might make you able to answer the question “How does a digital synthesizer make all the awesome musical sounds?”…

Avoiding Coincident Face Rendering Artifacts Using Dielectric Priority in Autodesk Fusion 360

March 5, 2019

This is a short tutorial on how to avoid unwanted rendering behavior for coincident faces in Fusion 360. However, this is a principle that probably will work elsewhere as well, given you have access to similar dielectric priority options. One…

How to Easily Model Wires and Tubes in Autodesk Fusion 360

January 14, 2019

In this blog post we’ll show you how to create wires and tubes in different ways. We’ll start with laying everything on a flat surface, then on an uneven surface and lastly mix things up a bit more. These methods…

Makefiles: Part 3 — Test, Lint, Deploy!

August 16, 2018

Torstein Grindvik

Be sure to check out Makefiles: Part 1 — A Gentle Introduction and Makefiles: Part 2 — Makefiles Can Make Webpages?. This time we want to be able to: run make test to run a few tests on our code, run…

Makefiles: Part 2 — Makefiles Can Make Webpages?

July 11, 2018

Torstein Grindvik

In Makefiles: Part 1 — A Gentle Introduction we learned a few tricks concerning the basics of Makefiles. Today, we will learn some of the more confusing symbols used in Makefiles’ syntax, commonly seen around the web in Makefiles. We will use…

Makefiles: Part 1 — A Gentle Introduction

June 28, 2018

Torstein Grindvik

Let’s look at the notorious Makefile today! We will ease into it and keep things clean! This first part will look at creating a makefile which does not do anything significant. Rather, we will create rules (which actions in makefiles…

Getting Started with Programming – Part 8: Typedef and Structs

October 12, 2017

Arduino Tutorials, Software Tutorials

Previous parts of the Getting Started with Programming series: Part 1: Skimming the Surface Part 2: Conditional Statements Part 3: Loops Part 4: Arrays and Lists Part 5: Functions and Scope Part 6: Defines and Random Numbers Part 7: Pointers…

Parametric Modelling in Fusion 360 – Making a Triangle Box

August 23, 2017

Last year we wrote a blog post where we showed how to use parametric modelling to make a simple box. Someone commented that they would like to know how to make a triangle box as well. We thought it would…

Sculptris: First Impressions and 3D Printing

August 17, 2017

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Sculptris is a sculpting 3D modelling software developed by Pixelogic who also have developed the more famous ZBrush. Unlike ZBrush however, Sculptris is completely free! We haven’t looked at Sculptris before, so let’s give you our first impressions before going…

MQTT – What Is It? And How Can You Use It?

July 20, 2017

In this post are we going to talk a bit about MQTT and give you a quick example of how you can publish a simple message to a MQTT-Broker from a simple computer system (here: an Orange Pi Zero). MQTT…

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…

Basic Static Stress Simulation in Fusion 360

July 26, 2016