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cooked / kimotor

KiCad plugin for the design of parametric PCB motors
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add KiBot support #56

Open cooked opened 10 months ago

cooked commented 10 months ago

https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot

hstarmans commented 10 months ago

Cool you are going to look into this @cooked . I would also checkout the PCB2Blender plugin . It enables you to create renders of the PCB motor, see my Youtube video

If you look at PCBmotors. I am working on the following challenges;

  1. How to add a shaft. I currently use a sinter bronze shaft
  2. How to stick the shaft to the board --> my current idea is soldering
  3. How to keep the rotor stuck to the shaft --> I propose a ferrite sheet see video
  4. Motor driver, I use a FPGA (https://github.com/hstarmans/hexastorm/blob/master/src/hexastorm/motor.py) Note that it is possible to get sponsering and bring FPGA to ASIC . Another option would be to use a small microcontroller as bugeja does.

There are also other PCB motors possible, i.e. more stepper like or more like race tracks. Why do you need them?