Mads Aasvik

Mads is interested in mechatronics and different CAD-related activities. He also does a lot of 3D printing and prototype building.

Posts by Mads Aasvik

How to Make Music Using MIDI and VSTi Plugins

April 20, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Software Tutorials

There are many ways to make music. You have the traditional studio and live recordings to sequencing on Gameboy and everything in between. In this blogpost we’re going to look at how to use your own computer to make music…

An Intro to Inductors

April 13, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

A couple of weeks ago we wrote a post about capacitors. This time we’re going to look at the capacitor’s relative: the inductor. Throughout this post we’ll compare the two from time to time, so it might be a good…

Getting Started with Programming – Part 3: Loops

April 7, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Software Tutorials

Welcome to part 3 of this series where we introduce you to the very basics in programming. This time we’re going to look at loops, and as usual we will give you examples in both Arduino/C++ and Python. The previous…

Pattern Generation Code for Our Interactive LED Lamp

March 18, 2016

Mads Aasvik

LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

When the lamp we built a while back got some attention on Hackaday recently, someone in the comments would’ve liked to see the code that generated the light patterns. We thought it could be cool to publish the code, so…

Arduino Tutorial: Simple High-pass, Band-pass and Band-stop Filtering

March 10, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

In this post we’ll show you how to implement very simple high-pass, band-pass and band-stop filters on an Arduino. It is highly recommended that you read our previous post about potentiometers and EMA (Exponential Moving Average) filtering as well as…

A Quick Look at FreeCAD

February 25, 2016

Mads Aasvik

First Impressions - Software

FreeCAD is an open source parametric CAD software, which is obviously also free. We’ve taken a quick look at it to check if it’s something that we’d recommend to other makers. FreeCAD is still in heavy development (current latest non-dev.…

Getting Started with Programming – part 2: Conditional Statements

February 18, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Software Tutorials

If you’re new to programming, you should definitely read part 1. The author realize that part 1 was a tad too large and therefore parts in this series will come as more bite-sized chunks from now on. In this part…

Getting Started with Programming – part 1: Skimming the Surface

January 13, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Software Tutorials

If you’ve never touched it before, getting started with programming can be a daunting task. Luckily, there are countless of good resources around the interwebs on how to get started. Despite this, we’re going to write our own little series…

Tutorial – Multiple Values in the Arduino IDE Serial Plotter

January 7, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

On December 17th 2015, Arduino released their IDE version 1.6.7 which allows multiple values to be plotted in the serial plotter. We have set up an example to show you how to use this feature. Our setup for testing the…

A Quick Look at the Free Browser-based CAD Software Onshape

December 17, 2015

Mads Aasvik

First Impressions - Software

Onshape is a powerful browser-based CAD software which has a wide array of tools to make you able to create all sorts of intricate 3D models. The software has a strong focus on cross-platform cloud usage and features assembly tools…

Embedded Tutorial – DC Motors

December 2, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

Connecting a DC motor to a power source and making it spin has to be one of the first electronics-related activity many people do in their lives. Controlling it with a microcontroller or an Arduino is not much more complicated,…

Tutorial: Arduino and Buttons

November 12, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Maker Tutorials

A couple of weeks ago we wrote an Arduino tutorial about potentiometers. This week we’re going to take a quick look at the pot’s close relative: the button. We will do a simple example circuit and code with an Arduino…

Tutorial: Potentiometers with Arduino and Filtering

October 28, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Maker Tutorials

In this blogpost we will go through what a potentiometer is and how they work, how to connect it up to an Arduino as well as describe a common problem with regards to potentiometer usage and a workaround to that…

How to Use a Sheet CNC Mill or Laser Cutter to Easily Realize a 3D model

October 22, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials, Software Tutorials

The short answer is Autodesk 123D Make. You might think we’re getting paid by Autodesk to write all these posts about their software. This is not the case, but as a maker you should really be aware of some of…

What Is Autodesk 123D Design and Why Should You (Not) Use It?

October 15, 2015

Mads Aasvik

First Impressions - Software

EDIT: Autodesk 123D Design has been discontinued as of March 31st 2017. It is no longer available for download from the official site and already downloaded versions will no longer be supported. However, you are able to download it here…