This week I explore how to use the Arduino to drive lights and motors, and take over the world, with a few lines of code and a handful of electronics.

While there are a couple of open-source brushless drivers already available, [neuromancer2701] created his own brushless motor controller on an Arduino shield.

This machine uses a three-phase Dahlander motor, which has three operation modes: stop, half speed, and full speed. The motor uses a special mechanical switch to select the operating mode.

If you've messed with Arduino, the inexpensive micro controller, you'll know that you can run a small motor or turn an LED on and off, but anything else - powering a pump, turning on a light bulb ...

Watch the demonstration video below to learn more about the LittleArm Big Arduino robot arm which has been specifically created to provide a desktop robotic arm construction kit perfect for both ...

It is a Clarke DCM10, a variant of Sieg’s X1, sometimes knows as a ‘micro mill’. Mine has a ~230V 150W brushed dc motor that needs driving from 240Vac mains power. Almost randomly, I settled on a ...