Woodworking Projects

Foam is a great and cheap material for various creations. This time we needed to cut some EVA foam into shapes for a prototype we are creating. We were not 100% sure that a hot-wire foam cutter would be the…

A Button Pressing Game

September 14, 2016

LED Projects, Teensy Projects, Woodworking Projects

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…

Making an (Open Source) Office Lamp

January 19, 2016

LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects, Woodworking Projects

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

November 4, 2015

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

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…

Our Drawing Machine at Trondheim Maker Faire 2015

September 9, 2015

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…

An introduction to CNC machining and the making of a headphone holder

May 13, 2015

Maker Tutorials, Woodworking Projects

It took me 1 hour to design the model, and it takes 1 hour to machine it using a CNC. Why does it take 5 hours total?? 1 + 1 equals 2, NOT 5!? In this post we will explain the…

Building a CNC Machine

April 29, 2015

Mechatronics, Woodworking Projects

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…

Making a Ping-pong Ball Visualizer System for Technoport – Pt. 2: The Building Phase

April 22, 2015

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics, Woodworking Projects

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

April 15, 2015

3D Printing Projects, Mechatronics, Woodworking Projects

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 Log Book Holder

February 25, 2015

Every workshop has different tools. And several of those tools have a lot of options when it comes to using them. For example, a 3D-printer can be used with several different materials and temperatures, while when running a CNC, the…

Building a Shoe Shine Box

October 27, 2013

Taking care of your shoes is necessary (and fun). But I was kind of tired of storing all my Shoe Shine equipment in a drawer. After stumbling upon this great post on the art of manliness, I checked the pile of scrap…

Wood Block Clock

April 10, 2011

LED Projects, Woodworking Projects

Inspired by a clock at IKEA with a 7-segment dispaly behind a solid wood front , I wanted to build something like that myself. And with a led matrix from ebay, a microcontroller and a few more components this sort…

Assembling the Keytar

January 30, 2011

Testing the electronics The circuit boards The keyboard Finished mounting =)

Coloring the Keytar

January 20, 2011