Hackaday

Rewound And Rewired BLDC Makes A Half-Decent Generator

What’s the best way to turn a high-powered brushless DC motor optimized for hobby use into a decent low-RPM generator? Do you take a purely mechanical approach and slap a gearbox on the shaft? Or do ...
Electronic Design

Sensorless BLDC Driver First to Support Full Torque at Zero Speed

Brushless DC (BLDC) motors offer many operating attributes in performance and controllability, but they may require a position (rotation) sensor such as an encoder, resolver, or Hall-effect device to ...
Hackaday

Musical Motors, BLDC Edition

This should count as a hack: making music from a thing that should not sing. In this case, [SIROJU] is tickling the ivories with a Brushless DC motor, or BLDC. To listen to a performance, jump to 6:27 ...
Electronic Design

BLDC Motor Driver is Smart, Small, and Powerful

There seems to be no end in sight for the proliferation of small-to-medium power motor drivers, as the motor applications—especially for brushless-dc (BLDC) types—are being designed into more end ...
EDN

Motor driver IC for BLDC, stepper motor deployments

A new motor driver featuring pulse-width modulation (PWM) and serial interfaces ensures quiet and robust motor operation in industrial and consumer applications. The motor driver IC, supporting both ...