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PCB Motor with integrated ESC!

A project log for PCB Motor

A smaller and cheaper open source brushless motor

carl-bugejaCarl Bugeja 10/14/2018 at 14:360 Comments

I have finally finish my PCB Motor with the integrated ESC! Made this quick video showcasing it:

The PCB was hand soldered. It took me a little while to get it to work because I had some soldering flux residue on one of the motor driver chip that was acting as impedance. This was triggering the driver's on-board protection circuit. But after removing the chip and clean its pads, it was up and running.

I have managed to fit the ESC in such a small area by soldering parts on both sides of the PCB and using the smallest footprints I could find! Both the MCU and motor driver have a 3x3mm qfn package and most of the other discrete components are 0201s! 

I'm currently making another video explaining how i design this driver and what were the challenges involved! So I will be releasing its schematics and gerber files in the next few days :)

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