Common Hardware

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects, Teensy Projects

In our latest blog post we wrote about the enclosure on this “LED Matrix with Rolling Particles”. But how is it to use? And what happens on the inside? Continue to read this post to find out! What Does It…

LED Matrix with Rolling Particles – Overview and Enclosure

December 6, 2018

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects, Teensy Projects

Making a device with an LED matrix is something we have wanted to do for a while now, and now we’ve finally gotten around doing it. The way we usually do it with these kinds of quick-builds is to use…

Building a Remotely Controlled / Autonomous Land Vehicle Platform – pt. 3: Electronics and Remote Control Firmware

September 19, 2018

Mechatronics, Teensy Projects

Previous parts in this series: Parts and Design Chassis Building In this post we’ll look at the electronics and the code and libraries used to control the vehicle. Motherboard PCB To tie the motorcontrollers, Teensy and receiver together, we chose…

Controlling a Camera Shutter Remotely with an Arduino

July 20, 2018

Arduino Projects, Arduino Tutorials

To take a picture on the exact moment you want to can be a hassle. But most cameras have the possibility to use an external shutter remote. Connecting a regular button here does not help us, but by creating a…

The Automatic Pet Feeder

July 4, 2018

3D Printing Projects, Arduino Projects, Mechatronics

Many pet feeders already exist, but we wanted to make one ourselves. The author of this blog post has a dog with separation anxiety which makes it difficult for him to be left alone in the house. A small machine…

Building a Remotely Controlled/Autonomous Land Vehicle Platform – pt. 2: Chassis Building

June 14, 2018

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics, Teensy Projects

About three months ago we wrote a post about a vehicle platform we’re building. Since then we’ve mostly waited for parts, primarily the aluminium plates. Now that the parts have arrived, we’ve started building the vehicle chassis. Current State The…

Building a Remotely Controlled/Autonomous Land Vehicle Platform – pt. 1: Parts and Design

March 15, 2018

Arduino Projects, Mechatronics

Here at NC we try to always have some fun internal projects going on to keep our creativity sharpened and to test out new ideas. This is one of those projects. We’re planning on building a remotely controlled vehicle which…

Behind the scenes: “Blåfrost 2016”

March 22, 2017

Arduino Projects, LED Projects

This is a behind the scenes post from something quite technically manageable, and at the same time visually very powerful! The case is an interactive installation that turns on the lights and starts up the internal smoke machine whenever…

Hacking an Old VHS Player

February 24, 2017

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

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

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…

Focus Box part 3 – Packaging and Summary

October 26, 2016

3D Printing Projects, Teensy Projects

This blog post series is about the creation of the “Focus Box”. A box that creates “noisy ambient sounds” to mask out background noise to enhance personal productivity. In the first blog post you can read more about the “big idea”. And…

Coffee Timer part 2: Low Power Wireless on the BBC micro:bit

October 19, 2016

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…

Focus Box part 2: The Internals

October 4, 2016