Coffee Timer part 3: Enclosures
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…
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Focus Box part 3 – Packaging and Summary
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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
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
In this post we will go through the inner workings of the Focus Box. What is creating the magic? You can read more about the background for this project in the blog post found here. The Goal of the Internals The job…
Coffee Timer part 1: The First Prototype Based on the BBC micro:bit
The first prototype mounted on the coffee maker. This version displayed minutes as dots on the display. A button push revealed the time in numbers. Introduction In our office, we have a coffee maker capable of making large amounts of…
A Button Pressing Game
In cooperation with Superblaise we did a project called “Hele Norges Knapp” (“All of Norway’s Button”) for BankAxept. The goal of the game was to press a button as many times as possible within 30 seconds. During its trip through…
The Seesaw part 2: Basic PID Theory and Arduino Implementation
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
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…
Focus Box part 1: The Idea
After looking into the music history of one of our makers we found an interesting fact: He often listens to ambient noise to achieve greater productivity and to easier get into the “zone” Why? We wondered if it was just he…
Custom Electronic Door Lock pt. 1: The Design
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…
Pattern Generation Code for Our Interactive LED Lamp
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…
Embedded-desk: How is it equipped now?
This post is a continuously updated description of the current state of one of our “embedded-desks”. Computer A computer is a great tool. Both for creating things (programming, PCB-layout etc) and it’s a great companion when assembling stuff. Displaying datasheets, graphing…
More light! Embedded-desk here we come
In this post we explain what we did to light up our “embedded”-desk. As everything, it started with a need for light. And not a small amount. Enough to work well. Enough to see what you are doing. Enough to do what…
Making an (Open Source) Office Lamp
Good lighting is often underestimated (together with a lot of different things). We decided to build a couple of both good looking, powerful and functional office lamps. Design The lamp is designed around the “GU10-socket-standard”. It consists of 10 GU10-sockets,…
Gravity Pong
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…