Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

When looking for someone with deep technical understanding and a powerful urge to create something, Gunnar is a home run. This, combined with a good amount of curiosity, makes him a great system designer here at Norwegian Creations. Two of his main areas of expertise are electronics and computer systems, but he also loves working with moving machines and lasers.

Posts by Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

SNMP Temperature Monitoring System – Hardware Update

September 19, 2019

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials, Misc. Other Projects

As written about earlier (Do It Yourself: SNMP Temperature Monitoring System) we use the SNMP monitoring nodes in several use cases here at Norwegian Creations. However the blog post does only a minimal hardware setup with a temporary connection method…

Modifying a Portable iPod Docking to Bluetooth

September 14, 2017

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Misc. Other Projects

Logitech Stock Photo Recently, we found an old Logitech Pure-Fi Express Plus that had been laying around from old times. It was originally made for docking a iPod / iPhone with the old Apple 30-pin Dock Connector. Since this connector…

Do It Yourself: SNMP Temperature Monitoring System

June 9, 2017

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials, Misc. Other Projects

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. 3: Electronics and Wiring

May 5, 2017

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics

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…

Do It Yourself: Bose QC15 / QC25 Bluetooth Module

December 15, 2016

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, Maker Tutorials

The newest Bose noise cancelling headset, the QC35, has wireless Bluetooth connection. They are also quite pricey. Many already own a pair of QC15 or QC25. If you’re one of these people and want to upgrade to wireless connection without…

An Intro to Digital Multimeters (DMMs)

September 21, 2016

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials

Here at Norwegian Creations we use digital multimeters (DMMs) a lot. In fact, this is an essential tool to have if you want to play with electronics. In this blog post a brief introduction and operation of a digital multimeter…

More light! Embedded-desk here we come

January 27, 2016

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

In this post we explain what we did to light up our “embedded”-desk. As everything, it started with a need for light. And not a small amount. Enough to work well. Enough to see what you are doing. Enough to do what…

Gravity Pong

November 4, 2015

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects, Woodworking Projects

Gravity Pong is a 4.5 meter high ball bouncing RGB-LED game. It contains, among other things, 1792 individual controllable LEDs, that together can draw up to almost 108 Amps! Continue reading to find out how we took this into account when we built this game. Introduction Gravity…

Reaction Game – Technical Insights

September 24, 2015

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

Before this year’s Maker Faire in Trondheim we in NC wanted to make an interactive installation to our stand. With a short deadline, we didn’t have time to order everything we needed. So we searched through what we had laying…

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…

Controlling both a projector and a screen with a Raspberry Pi

July 17, 2014

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Raspberry Pi Projects

Earlier this year the co-working space we are located in (DIGS) mounted a projector in the ceiling. At the same time they also got a motorized projection screen. This introduced some unforeseen challenges. How do we turn the projector on/off? We don’t have…

Making the LED Installation at Visit Trondheim

June 4, 2014

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

NICE and Bjørke Arkitektur had this awesome idea on how to create a really mesmerizing entrance at Trondheim’s new tourist information, named Visit Trondheim. It should among other things include a moss coated interactive LED installation. As you may know, LEDs is…

Phone Controlled Garage Door

August 25, 2013

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Misc. Other Projects

As you might know, Norwegian Creations has moved in at the new co-working space called DIGS in Trondheim this summer. To get into the backyard of DIGS we need to open an electrical controlled garage door, but we only have one remote:/…

FScontroller Part 1

June 14, 2013

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Misc. Other Projects

Last October I made a prototype for a custom hardware controller to FreeStyler 512(Stage lighting software). The goal was to make a controller I can use when I’m running a preprogrammed light show (not a programming console, maybe next version?). For those who…

Repairing a dead Apple Airport Express

June 7, 2013

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Misc. Other Projects

Last summer I got an AirPort Express from one I know in the states. It turned out that it was completely dead when you plug it in the wall. The first thing that hit my head was that the Power…