The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

#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!
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