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Building a 3D motor printed motor is one thing, but creating a completely custom servo motor with encoder requires some significant engineering. In the video after the break [365 Robots] …read more Continue reading High Caliber Engineering On A Low Torque PCB Servo Motor
PCB motors are useful things. With coils printed right on the board, you don’t need to worry about fussy winding jobs, and it’s possible to make very compact, self contained …read more Continue reading What Makes Wedge Coils Better Than Round For PCB Motors?
You’ve got to hand it to [Carl Bugeja] — he comes up with some of the most interesting electromechanical designs we’ve seen. His latest project is right up there, too: …read more Continue reading Single Flex PCB Folds into a Four-Wheel Rover, Complete with Motors
[Rik]’s Hexastorm laser scanner project originally used a discrete polygon mirror controller+motor module from Sharp to spin a prism. But the scanner head was a bit difficult to assemble and had a lot …read more Continue reading Laser Scanner Upgraded to use PCB Motor
Modern gaming console controllers aren’t without their annoyances — Joy-Con drift, anyone? The problems might stem from design deficiencies, but we suspect that user enthusiasm and the mechanical stress it …read more Continue reading Exploring the Hall Effect for Haptic Feedback PS4 Joysticks
There are many ways to make a linear actuator, a device for moving something is a straight line. Most of the easier to make ones use a conventional motor and …read more Continue reading A Fast Linear Actuator Entirely In One PCB
[Carl Bugeja] has been working on his PCB motors for more than three years now, and it doesn’t seem like he is close to running out of ideas for the …read more Continue reading Tiny PCB Motor Robot Is Making It’s First Wobbly Moves
Over the last 2 years [Carl Bujega] has made a name for himself with his PCB motor designs. His latest adventure is to turn it into a stepper motor by adding position control with microstepping.
The NEMA stepper motors most of us know are synchronous stepper motors, while [Carl]’s design …read more
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys dive into the most interesting hacks of the week. Confused by USB-C? So are we, and so is the Raspberry Pi 4. Learning VGA is a lot easier when abstract concepts are unpacked onto a huge breadboard using logic chips and an EEPROM. …read more
Over on Hackaday.io we have a lot of people playing around with the possibilities presented by cheap printed circuit boards. Whether that means making a quadcopter from fiberglass or a speaker from etched copper, we’ve seen just about everything. Now, finally, we have a miniature magnetic racetrack. It’s an ant …read more
Continue reading Circular Linear Motor Becomes A Micro Motor Raceway