#Electric motor

Author: Brian Benchoff / Source: Hackaday 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,

Author: Inderpreet Singh / Source: Hackaday The geared DC motor has become the bread-and-butter of the modern-day beginner project. Unfortunately, with the advent of vast online catalogs peddling a wide assortment of these mechanical marvels, validating the claim that one DC motor will outperform

Author: Stan Schroeder / Source: Mashable Hear that, Tesla? Volvo is on board. The Chinese-owned, Swedish car maker has announced Wednesday that “every Volvo it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor.” This doesn’t necessarily mean all Volvo cars will be purely electric by then. The

Author: Al Williams / Source: Hackaday The Internet has brought a lot of advantage to life, not the least of which is access to really cheap electronic parts. [KarelK166] was buying cheap geared motors for projects, but they didn’t easily work with Lego blocks. He found an easy way to adapt them

Author: John Baichtal / Source: Hackaday [Michael Brandl] got to visit the Milka chocolate factory in Bludenz, Austria and was inspired to build this simulation of the production process for the LEGO world 2017 event in Copenhagen. The process begins with the empty mold riding on a double row of