Tutorials

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…

Getting Started with Programming – Part 4: Arrays and Lists

May 11, 2016

Welcome to part 4 in our series of blogposts where we introduce beginners to programming. Be sure to read the following previous episodes: Part 1: Skimming the Surface Part 2: Conditional Statements Part 3: Loops Introduction Arrays and lists are…

Arduino Tutorial: Temperature Sensor

April 27, 2016

Arduino Tutorials

Measuring temperature using an Arduino and a temperature sensor is actually super easy. We’re going to show you how. The Hardware While getting some sort of temperature values from a sensor is really easy, getting real and accurate readings is…

How to Make Music Using MIDI and VSTi Plugins

April 20, 2016

Software Tutorials

There are many ways to make music. You have the traditional studio and live recordings to sequencing on Gameboy and everything in between. In this blogpost we’re going to look at how to use your own computer to make music…

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…

Getting Started with Programming – Part 3: Loops

April 7, 2016

Welcome to part 3 of this series where we introduce you to the very basics in programming. This time we’re going to look at loops, and as usual we will give you examples in both Arduino/C++ and Python. The previous…

Arduino Tutorial: Simple High-pass, Band-pass and Band-stop Filtering

March 10, 2016

Arduino Tutorials

In this post we’ll show you how to implement very simple high-pass, band-pass and band-stop filters on an Arduino. It is highly recommended that you read our previous post about potentiometers and EMA (Exponential Moving Average) filtering as well as…

Battery Capacity

March 3, 2016

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

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…

Getting Started with Programming – part 2: Conditional Statements

February 18, 2016

If you’re new to programming, you should definitely read part 1. The author realize that part 1 was a tad too large and therefore parts in this series will come as more bite-sized chunks from now on. In this part…

Getting Started with Programming – part 1: Skimming the Surface

January 13, 2016

If you’ve never touched it before, getting started with programming can be a daunting task. Luckily, there are countless of good resources around the interwebs on how to get started. Despite this, we’re going to write our own little series…

Tutorial – Multiple Values in the Arduino IDE Serial Plotter

January 7, 2016

Arduino Tutorials

On December 17th 2015, Arduino released their IDE version 1.6.7 which allows multiple values to be plotted in the serial plotter. We have set up an example to show you how to use this feature. Our setup for testing the…

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