Maker Tutorials

If you’re going to design embedded hardware you have know your way around the most common wired digital communication protocols and standards. These protocols and standards define how different parts of an embedded system communicate with each other, for instance…

An Intro to Digital Multimeters (DMMs)

September 21, 2016

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Here at Norwegian Creations we use digital multimeters (DMMs) a lot. In fact, this is an essential tool to have if you want to play with electronics. In this blog post a brief introduction and operation of a digital multimeter…

Double Exponential Moving Average Filter – Speeding up the EMA

August 31, 2016

Arduino Tutorials, Maker Tutorials

Sometimes you have a noisy signal which you want to low-pass filter to a less noisy signal. The Exponential Moving Average (EMA) filter is a nice and easy filter to implement on your embedded system. Read more about the EMA…

An Intro to Transistors and Relays

May 24, 2016

Let’s continue our introductory journey through different electronic components. Previously we’ve looked at capacitors and inductors. We’ve also looked at potentiometers, buttons and temperature sensors in conjunction with the Arduino. This time we’ll take a quick look at transistors and…

An Intro to Inductors

April 13, 2016

A couple of weeks ago we wrote a post about capacitors. This time we’re going to look at the capacitor’s relative: the inductor. Throughout this post we’ll compare the two from time to time, so it might be a good…

Battery Capacity

March 3, 2016

Battery capacity is something everyone encounter on a daily basis, but the common knowledge regarding this rather important topic seems to be a bit low. This blog post will hopefully enlighten you about this field, so keep on reading! Batteries As you probably know…

Embedded Tutorial – DC Motors

December 2, 2015

Connecting a DC motor to a power source and making it spin has to be one of the first electronics-related activity many people do in their lives. Controlling it with a microcontroller or an Arduino is not much more complicated,…

Tutorial: Arduino and Buttons

November 12, 2015

Arduino Tutorials, Maker Tutorials

A couple of weeks ago we wrote an Arduino tutorial about potentiometers. This week we’re going to take a quick look at the pot’s close relative: the button. We will do a simple example circuit and code with an Arduino…

Tutorial: Potentiometers with Arduino and Filtering

October 28, 2015

Arduino Tutorials, Maker Tutorials

In this blogpost we will go through what a potentiometer is and how they work, how to connect it up to an Arduino as well as describe a common problem with regards to potentiometer usage and a workaround to that…

How to Use a Sheet CNC Mill or Laser Cutter to Easily Realize a 3D model

October 22, 2015

Maker Tutorials, Software Tutorials

The short answer is Autodesk 123D Make. You might think we’re getting paid by Autodesk to write all these posts about their software. This is not the case, but as a maker you should really be aware of some of…

Sous-Vide – Some technical insights into this “magical” food preparation method

October 1, 2015

A picture form our Instagram Sous-vide is a method of cooking in which food is sealed in airtight plastic bags then placed in a water bath or in a temperature-controlled steam environment for longer than normal cooking times at an…

Tutorial: Calibrating Stepper Motor Machines with Belts and Pulleys

July 29, 2015

While making machines which is actuated by stepper motors without closed loop control, you more often than not want to calibrate the stepper motors in software to make the machine move exactly as you want it to. If you tell…

Basic CNC: Machining wood

July 15, 2015

In this CNC post we will look at some basic concepts when machining wood using a CNC machine. Factors such as feed rates, tools, materials (wood types), and machine rigidity will be discussed. Wood is a rather common material, and a…

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

May 13, 2015