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#663 – Motors on PCBs with Carl Bugeja
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!