Building a CNC Machine
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This is the first post in a series of four where we’ll be talking about CNC related stuff, mainly because CNC milling is awesome! For a long time we at NC have been dreaming of having easy access to a…
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Making a Ping-pong Ball Visualizer System for Technoport – Pt. 2: The Building Phase
Be sure to read part 1 where we talk about the design phase of this installation! Mechanical and Structural CNC-Milling As in this project, we had to utilize our new CNC-milling machine, and the upright plywood pieces on the…
Making a Ping-pong Ball Visualizer System for Technoport – Pt. 1: The Design Phase
This project is really something else. Technoport 2015 hosted a Live Crowdfunding event in Storsalen in Studentersamfundet, Trondheim March 18th 2015. For this event we were tasked to create a pysical installation which would be set up on the stage…
Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 5: Finale
Making this machine was really fun and rewarding. We learned a lot on the way and we also got great feedback from the users at Trondheim Maker Faire and several other places we’ve exhibited the plotter. There’s still much to…
Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 4: Software and firmware
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
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
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
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…
Building a Laser Engraver: Part 2. Technical insights
This post contains a review of different aspects of the Laser Engraver. And it will probably be updated continuously. System overview Just to start out on the right foot, this image explains how we name all the different main parts…
A Video from the making of a Laser Engraver
The Laser Engraver is now 99% finished, and has already taken part of a preview for Trondheim Maker Faire: PSTEREO Mini Maker Faire. The music is from the bonus track on Seven Journeys to a New Home, an album made by…
Building a Laser Engraver: Part 1
Last year we made a small laser engraver, aimed toward creating small engravings on wood. It worked, kind of. With kind of, I mean some features could have been better: Size: The last one had only a 2.5cm x 2.5cm work…
Preparing the Drawing Machine to Technoport Access Water
We are now preparing to have our Drawing Machine exhibited on Technoport Talks: Access Water conference that will find place in NTNU Realfagsbygget tomorrow (26.sept 2012). The Drawing Machine will stand outside of R8 from 08:30 to approx 13.00. If you are nearby you could catch…
Building a Tea Dipping Machine
Are Halvorsen and I decided to build a machine to prove the ease of making tea compared to coffee. How complex the Coffe Machine problem is can be watched here: Coffe Machine at Omega Verksted
Drawing Machine – part 2
Skift Design is making an installation for the Technoport conference in Trondheim, and as a part of that they wanted a drawbot. They contacted Omega Workshop at NTNU, and got in contact with me and Gunnar who was actually making one already! What needs to…