[Noisebridge-discuss] printable stepper motors
Andy Isaacson
adi at hexapodia.org
Sat Dec 6 20:27:54 UTC 2008
I don't really understand all the details, but I know there are people
at Noisebridge who are into this kind of thing:
http://www.3dreplicators.com/cgi-bin/cblog/index.php?/archives/491-Building-a-printable-stepper-for-a-next-generation-Tommelise.html
Back in July I started a project to build a tin can linear stepper
motor for my next generation Reprap machine ...
The reluctance motor, commonly referred to as either a variable or
switch reluctance (VR or SR), offers the simplest, lowest cost motor
available to date. This motor consists of a shaped, highly permeable
material for the rotor and two- or more-phase windings in the
stator. The shape of the rotor concentrates magnetic flux lines into
"poles" on the rotor which then interact with the rotating field
being developed in the stator windings
It would be super cool if our RepRap used motors we'd built ourselves.
:)
-andy
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