Raspberry Pi Projects

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…

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…

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…

A Behind the Scenes Look at the Building Process of Our Interactive LED Lamp

June 24, 2015

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

Click here for a short intro post about this project or here for a more detailed post about how we designed and built the lamp.

Designing and Building an Interactive LED Lamp – Technical Insights

June 10, 2015

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

Be sure to also read the short intro post of this project here and you can watch a behind-the-scenes video here! Sometimes, when we need to learn how to do something, we create a project out of it. This was one of…

Our Interactive LED Lamp – An Intro

May 20, 2015

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

We’ve had a lamp hanging from the ceiling over our heads the last few months. This is a lamp we have made ourselves containing 512 individually controllable LEDs, a bunch of 3D-printed pieces and lots of cotton. It is of…

Making an Interactive Multimedia Installation for Technoport – Pt. 2: The Building Phase

April 9, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Projects, LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

Be sure to read part 1 where we talk about the design phase of this installation! Mechanical and Structural The new CNC mill in our Makerspace proved vital when building this installation. Milling the parts (they had to be…

Making an Interactive Multimedia Installation for Technoport – Pt. 1: The Design Phase

March 26, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Projects, LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects

For Technoport 2015 we were tasked to create an installation which would be displayed in the lobby at the event. Its main task would be to work as a gathering point and an ice-breaker for the attendees. We wanted it…

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…

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…

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