Other Projects

Cyclone V SOC FPGA Design: Lessons Learned

By Ken Wells | Apr 4, 2016

Cyclone V Lessons From an Angry Moose In 2013, Nuvation designed and built a mechatronic version of the popular mobile game Angry Birds. Keeping with our company’s Canadian heritage, we dubb...

An Angry Moose in Silicon Valley

By Joseph Xavier | Nov 25, 2015

Angry Moose is Nuvation’s Canadian version of Angry Birds, but we chose the real world instead of a video game as the best place to play – with a real catapult, and real animals (okay, real stuffe...

The Kegerator Goes Live!

By Lindsay Farlow | Jul 25, 2015

Nuvation Garage has hosted a few parties in the past month, and the kegerator is performing beautifully! It’s not much to look at yet, but there’s been a ton of progress on the software side. Staf...

Nuvation Garage Knows How To Party

By Joseph Xavier , Lindsay Farlow | Jun 21, 2015

Nuvation Engineering's headquarters moved into its new building in April 2013, rolled up the Garage door and broke the place in properly, with a party for 125 of our closest family and friends. Whi...

"Autobox" Hardware Testing Tool

By Daniel Steger | Apr 8, 2015

Have you ever needed to power cycle your hardware remotely? Have you ever wanted to read several different voltage levels remotely? Do you want the ability to remotely control AC outlets? How about to...

Discofish Meets Paparazzi at Burning Man 2014

By Joseph Xavier | Sep 14, 2014

It look like the tech paparazzi got a snap of Discofish, Nuvation’s ever evolving autonomous vehicle experiment, at Burning Man 2014, and an honorable mention in Techcrunch. Well, to be fair, they c...

Carnegie Science Center features Nuvation Air Hockey Robot!

By Nuvation | Jun 13, 2014

6/13/09 – Carnegie Science Center robotics exhibition opens featuring Nuvation Air Hockey Bot! Roboworld™, the world’s largest and most comprehensive permanent robotics exhibition, opened Jun...

DiscoFish is Reborn

By Nuvation | May 31, 2014

The DiscoFish Burning Man mutant vehicle was born in 2002 from the humble single parent that was the Storm art car. After hitchhiking around the universe for 8 years, DiscoFish came back to the playa...

The Kegerator Project Goes Disco

By Nuvation | Nov 15, 2013

Until now we’ve been referring to this little kegerator project as, well, “The Kegerator Project.” This week, in a stroke of genius, Senior Design Engineer Ken Wells thought of a new name. While...

Nuvation Combat Robots Go To School

By Lindsay Farlow | May 17, 2013

Nuvation Engineering's CEO Michael Worry has done many presentations and panel appearances over the years, and is certainly no stranger to grueling question and answer sessions. Still I, don’t think...