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#663 – Motors on PCBs with Carl Bugeja
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Welcome Carl Bugeja!
- Carl lives and works in Malta
- He got started with robotics at his university
- Carl recently announced he would be launching a new company
- The company is called Microbots and they will sell components and kits for building similar projects to what Carl shows on his channel
- BigHero6 reference
- https://microbots.io/products/flatflap
- Max PCB temp is 130C
- Driven by series resistance of coil
- Tg value of PCBs
- A circuit that can solder itself
- How hot can a Flex PCB get?
- Batch vs raster
- Do you math?
- Tryng to get the perfect temperatures and dealing with flex materials
- Dealing with manufacturing differnces
- Scanning PCB Coils with X-Rays
- Sending PCB specs
- Incoming inspection and testing
- Testing boards with resistance
- Time flap produce
- User testing
- Drive circuits – How do you evaluate?
- Don’t build your own H Bridge
- Optimizing for size
- Is Carl looking for other features?
- Building libraries for driver
- Foldable 4 wheeled robot , an all one PCB
- ESP32-C3, connected to playstation remote
- Boston Dynamics uncanny valley
- Gathering on social
- Top down vs bottom up (start at the top)
- Prior to YouTube, Carl worked at a startup
- Drones – 2 prop
- Bluetooth tags
- Later he moved to the automotive industry
- Concept vehicles
- Software
- What’s in Malta?
- Building a remote electronics business
- Remote actuators on a PCB
- Microbots Flexar Driver
- Driving down the price per cell
- Similar to how they drove down the cost of LCD displays
- Pixel, voxel, moxel, maxel?
- Flipdots
- PCB Actuation
- Find Carl on YouTube and Instagram, and check out his work on the new Microbots site!
273 episodes
MP3•Episode home
Manage episode 408868166 series 2133
Content provided by Dave Jones & Chris Gammell, Dave Jones, and Chris Gammell. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Dave Jones & Chris Gammell, Dave Jones, and Chris Gammell or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Welcome Carl Bugeja!
- Carl lives and works in Malta
- He got started with robotics at his university
- Carl recently announced he would be launching a new company
- The company is called Microbots and they will sell components and kits for building similar projects to what Carl shows on his channel
- BigHero6 reference
- https://microbots.io/products/flatflap
- Max PCB temp is 130C
- Driven by series resistance of coil
- Tg value of PCBs
- A circuit that can solder itself
- How hot can a Flex PCB get?
- Batch vs raster
- Do you math?
- Tryng to get the perfect temperatures and dealing with flex materials
- Dealing with manufacturing differnces
- Scanning PCB Coils with X-Rays
- Sending PCB specs
- Incoming inspection and testing
- Testing boards with resistance
- Time flap produce
- User testing
- Drive circuits – How do you evaluate?
- Don’t build your own H Bridge
- Optimizing for size
- Is Carl looking for other features?
- Building libraries for driver
- Foldable 4 wheeled robot , an all one PCB
- ESP32-C3, connected to playstation remote
- Boston Dynamics uncanny valley
- Gathering on social
- Top down vs bottom up (start at the top)
- Prior to YouTube, Carl worked at a startup
- Drones – 2 prop
- Bluetooth tags
- Later he moved to the automotive industry
- Concept vehicles
- Software
- What’s in Malta?
- Building a remote electronics business
- Remote actuators on a PCB
- Microbots Flexar Driver
- Driving down the price per cell
- Similar to how they drove down the cost of LCD displays
- Pixel, voxel, moxel, maxel?
- Flipdots
- PCB Actuation
- Find Carl on YouTube and Instagram, and check out his work on the new Microbots site!
273 episodes
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