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Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 4: Software and firmware

November 7, 2014

Getting an image to the machine from somewhere else might at first seem like the most challenging aspect of a drawing machine like this. However, as soon as you get a grasp of some basic fundamentals, the road from some…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 3: Electronics

October 29, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, Drawing Machines

This post will explain the electronics taking part of the big Plotter. First we will explain the whole system: what it consists of and how it’s all connected together, before we go more in depth on some of the components.…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 2: Structural & Mechanical

October 23, 2014

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Drawing Machines

As stated in the Overview post, we wanted to base our core design on the previously built Laser Engraver. That implies using the same basic frame principle as well as stepper motors for actuating the machine in the XY plane…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 1: An Overview

October 2, 2014

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Drawing Machines

We thought it would be fun to build an old fashioned plotter which could be both interactive by duplicating what is drawn on a computer, as well as being able to draw vector graphics. All the actual drawing would be…

Norwegian Creations at Trondheim Maker Faire 2014

September 3, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Events

Trondheims first Maker Faire is over. And it was awesome! And yes, the awesomeness will continue. Norwegian Creations exhibited a big and NC-created plotting machine (checked out by Make here). Visitors controlled this machines in real time using a drawing pad. We supplied…

Bus Stop Pac-Man

August 28, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Raspberry Pi Projects

Together with HK-reklame and Trondheim Makers, we created some awesome interactive bus stops to advertise for Trondheim Maker Faire. In one of the bus stops we created a pac-man booth. And this post explains the process. Electronics The system consists of a Raspberry Pi…

Norwegian Creations at Trondheim Maker Faire 2014 – a Teaser

August 26, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Events

Many people has asked us what we are going to exhibit at Trondheim Maker Faire. To answer that we put together a short teaser video. You can read more about Trondheim Maker Faire here.

An open source CNC Dust Shoe

August 14, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects

If you don’t have a good performing dust collection system, the joy CNC machining will quickly fade away. Especially when you realise how much dust this kind of subtractive manufacturing creates. We upgraded our Shapeoko 2 with a Makita RT0700C router. This…

Electronics 101: Voltage, Current and Resistance

July 31, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Theoretical Tutorials

So what has this picture to do with voltage, current and resistance? Continue reading and you will be explained why this is a good analogy to this often misunderstood and complicated topic.

Top 5 Hardware Tools for FDM 3D Printing

July 23, 2014

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

There are quite a few hardware tools out there which make your 3D printing days easier. Here are our top five.

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…

The Open Source Generation

July 4, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Thoughts

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change.” Growing up today is without doubt different from growing up a couple of decades ago. Everything from common household technology to communication systems are totally different. And often overlooked, but extremely important,…

Tutorial: Using free SketchUp software for 3D printing – considerations and useful tools

June 30, 2014

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials, Software Tutorials

Why Sketchup? Not everyone can afford the most powerful 3D modelling/CAD software such as Inventor, Solidworks or NX. Many people, like myself, might want to look elsewhere for less expensive options for 3D printing purposes, and fortunately those exist. One…

How to make a simple table

June 18, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials

In this tutorial we will show you how to make a simple, yet beautiful table. 1. The Wood and the size The first thing you need to determine is the size. The one-person desk built here is 1 meter wide and…

How to shrink-to-fit the classic Levi’s 501 STF Jeans

June 11, 2014

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials

We needed a couple of extra work pants. And instead of buying the usual (and expensive) work pant (such as this), we decided to use the original work pants, namely the jeans. And the only alternative here was raw denim.…

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