You can salvage some nice motors out of optical drives but they can be tricky to control. That’s because brushless DC motors require carefully timed signals used in a process called Electronic Speed ...

The worst thing about a volume knob is that, having connected it to a computer, it might be wrong: if you’ve manually altered the volume settings somewhere else, the knob’s reading ...

The EEWeb Design Contest First Edition sponsored by Arduino and Altium is now open for submissions. This inaugural contest challenges hardware design enthusiasts from all over the world to develop an ...

This application note discusses the closed loop control of a 3-phase brushless direct current (BLDC) motor using the Z16FMC Family of Microcontrollers (MCU). The Z16FMC product family is designed ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) today announced the launch of “TC78B025FTG,” a three-phase brushless motor driver IC with a rotation speed control ...