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Arduino Tutorial: Serial Inputs

December 6, 2017

In almost every Arduino tutorial we’ve written we’ve used serial output for either printing text to terminal or plotting values. It is also invaluable as a debugging tool. We have rarely written about serial input, however, which is what this…

An Intro to Boolean Algebra and Logic Gates – Part 2

November 28, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

In the previous part of this series we gave you an intro to Boolean algebra and Logic Gates, which incidentally happens to be the title of this blog post as well. This time around we’ll take things a bit further…

An Intro to Boolean Algebra and Logic Gates – Part 1

October 31, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

This is part 1 of a planned short blog series about Boolean algebra and logic gates. In this first part we’ll introduce you to simple Boolean algebra, which is very basic, and then look at how one or more logic…

Getting Started with Programming – Part 8: Typedef and Structs

October 12, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Software Tutorials

Previous parts of the Getting Started with Programming series: Part 1: Skimming the Surface Part 2: Conditional Statements Part 3: Loops Part 4: Arrays and Lists Part 5: Functions and Scope Part 6: Defines and Random Numbers Part 7: Pointers…

How to Load and Save Configurations on an Arduino

September 26, 2017

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Arduino Tutorials

We have earlier written a rather deep post about a non-volatile (not lost when power is) way to store data here, but in this post we will focus on the following question: How can I save and load configuration data…

Arduino Tutorial: Using millis() Instead of delay()

September 5, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials,

A well known Arduino function is delay() which pauses the program for an amount of milliseconds specified as parameter. millis(), on the other hand, is a function that returns the amount of milliseconds that have passed since program start. At…

Parametric Modelling in Fusion 360 – Making a Triangle Box

August 23, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Software Tutorials

Last year we wrote a blog post where we showed how to use parametric modelling to make a simple box. Someone commented that they would like to know how to make a triangle box as well. We thought it would…

Sculptris: First Impressions and 3D Printing

August 17, 2017

Mads Aasvik

First Impressions - Software, Software Tutorials

Sculptris is a sculpting 3D modelling software developed by Pixelogic who also have developed the more famous ZBrush. Unlike ZBrush however, Sculptris is completely free! We haven’t looked at Sculptris before, so let’s give you our first impressions before going…

What Is FFT and How Can You Implement It on an Arduino?

August 10, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, , Theoretical Tutorials

In this blog post we’ll first briefly discuss Fourier Transform and FFT. Then we’ll show you one way to implement FFT on an Arduino. Fast Fourier Transform (aka. FFT) is an algorithm that computes Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). We’re not…

MQTT – What Is It? And How Can You Use It?

July 20, 2017

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Software Tutorials

In this post are we going to talk a bit about MQTT and give you a quick example of how you can publish a simple message to a MQTT-Broker from a simple computer system (here: an Orange Pi Zero). MQTT…

Arduino Tutorial: LCD Displays pt. 1 – HD44780 Character Displays

June 28, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

We have written plenty of Arduino Tutorials, but none of them have been about displays. So we decided to do something about that. This is the first of a planned three-part tutorial series on how to use various displays with…

Do It Yourself: SNMP Temperature Monitoring System

June 9, 2017

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials, Misc. Other Projects

Here at Norwegian Creations we occasionally need to monitor the temperature of a system. Sometimes we have done this with our DMM with data logging capabilities. But it’s a bad idea to impound our DMM’s for long periods. Therefore we need…

Breadboard – What, Why and How?

May 26, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

Breadboard is an essential tool for every electronics engineer and maker. In this blog post we’ll talk about why we use breadboards and how they work. Breadboards come in many shapes and sizes What? A breadboard is a simple tool…

Datalogging with a Multimeter

May 12, 2017

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Maker Tutorials

A Digital Multimeter (DMM) is a nice tool which we have talked about several times before (you can find an intro on how to use it here). The main usage is to measure something right now. But how can we…

Opamps – pt. 2: The Real World

April 11, 2017

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

Two weeks ago we started a blog series about operational amplifiers aka. opamps (or op amps). We showed you what an opamp is, some of the things it can do and the importance of feedback. To ensure that everything was…

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