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"I could make a motor driver!" was the first thing that came to mind. I have a need for lots of motor driver chips for an art project. (Think hundreds or thousa
by hugs 4y ago
"I could make a motor driver!" was the first thing that came to mind. I have a need for lots of motor driver chips for an art project. (Think hundreds or thousands of small DC motors.) At a minimum, a basic "h-bridge" circuit to control one motor is 4 transistors (and possibly 4 additional diodes). I'll still have to figure out if TinyTapeout could handle the voltage and current of one small DV motor, though. (5-12V, possibly up to 800mA). Of course, there are simple h-bridge chips already on the market for $0.20/chip, but designing my own would be fun.
- jononor 4y agoIf one could integrate some logic that can be communicated with over a digital protocol it would get real interesting. Maybe it could be the start of an open source I/O chip for the Klipper 3d-printer firmware. The output stage could be using discrete SMD components, to get sufficient power capacity.