Anders Strand

Anders is especially interested in the boundary between electronics and the physical world, and is just as often seen coding firmware as he's seen doing carpentry or 3D modelling.

Posts by Anders Strand

Making a Custom Webcam Mount

October 25, 2017

Anders Strand

3D Printing Projects

We bought a fancy new web camera for our meeting room, for use with video conferences and meetings. The camera works great, but lacks one critical feature: The ability to adjust the camera angle sideways. In addition, we wanted to…

Making a Homemade Travel Ukulele

August 3, 2017

Anders Strand

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…

Building a Quick & Dirty Foam Cutter

June 21, 2017

Anders Strand

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…

The DIY 3D Printer Life – Part 1: Cooling

March 17, 2017

Anders Strand

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

Anders Strand

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…