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Build a simple Arduino-based DCC system

This article will help you build a simple Arduino-based DCC system. Growing up in the 1980s I was living the dream. I had an ...
Electronics Weekly

Motor controller programmes through Arduino IDE

ClearCore CLCR-4-13 is an industrial IO and motion controller that can be programmed using the Arduino IDE. It handles up to four axes of step-and-direction motion control (500kHz max step rate), and ...
Hackaday

Arduino Electronic Speed Control Explained

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 ...
Electronics Weekly

Back in Wonderland: inside another SCR dc motor controller

Permanent magnet dc motors need a chunky inductor in series with them if they are fed from an SCR (thyristor) based mains power controller. It is (probably!) possible to safely interface an Arduino to ...
Hackaday

Battle Tested Current Limiter For Cheap DC Motor Controllers

Running a brushed motor in muddy or dusty environments takes a toll on controllers, with both heavy back EMF and high stall currents. This explains one of the challenge in Europe’s Hacky Racer series, ...