Mechatronics

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

September 19, 2018

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…

The Automatic Pet Feeder

July 4, 2018

Mads Aasvik

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

Mads Aasvik

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

Mads Aasvik

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…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 5: A Video from the Building

June 15, 2017

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics

We have through several posts now followed the making of a rather large Kossel Delta 3D-printer: Pt. 1: Parts and Planning Pt. 2: Building Update Pt. 3: Electronics and Wiring Pt. 4: Modifying the Effector Here is a a “Making of”-video…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 4: Modifying the Effector

May 16, 2017

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics

Let’s take a closer look at the custom modification we’ve done to our Kossel build’s effector. But first, you might be interested in the previous editions in this blog series: Pt. 1: Parts and Planning Pt. 2: Building Update Pt.…

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…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 2: Building Update

February 8, 2017

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics

Four weeks ago we wrote about a 3D printer we’re building. Now we have started building it, and we thought it’d be cool to share some of it in this post. Various Discussions and Pictures of Stuff This image doesn’t…

Building a Large Kossel Delta Printer – pt. 1: Parts and Planning

January 11, 2017

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics

Access to a 3D printer is very important for us in Norwegian Creations. Now we’ve decided that we want to upgrade our 3D printer park with a new big and fast printer. This time we’re going all out with a…

The Wake-a-tron 3000

November 17, 2016

Anders Strand

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…

Initial Design of the Monsterplotter

November 9, 2016

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Drawing Machines

For a while now we’ve had a drawing machine in development with the following main features: It uses an airbrush to draw. The drawing area is something vertical such as a wall or a canvas. The size of this drawing…

The Seesaw part 2: Basic PID Theory and Arduino Implementation

August 23, 2016

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Arduino Projects, Arduino Tutorials, Mechatronics, Theoretical Tutorials

A few weeks ago we wrote a post about this small project where we’re building a seesaw which will balance a ball with the help of a proximity sensor, a servo and a PID controller implemented on an Arduino. All…

PID Seesaw part 1: The Design

August 4, 2016

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Arduino Projects, Mechatronics

We got an idea of this small project which will be used as a platform to implement PID and other forms of motion control. Here’s an overview of how we’re envisioning the project. UPDATE Oct. 31st 2016: we have added…

Custom Electronic Door Lock pt. 1: The Design

May 31, 2016

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics

We like to create custom stuff for our office. Previously we’ve made our own lamps as well as an “embedded-desk” with custom lighting. The goal for our next office project is to make it possible for us to lock and…

Our Drawing Machine at Trondheim Maker Faire 2015

September 9, 2015

Mads Aasvik

3D Printing Projects, Arduino Projects, Drawing Machines, Woodworking Projects

In addition to our Reaction Game, vi also had a drawing machine on display at this year’s Trondheim Maker Faire. The machine exhibited in our tent at Trondheim Maker Faire 2015 This drawing machine is designed to draw on paper…

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