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 Electroni… ...

XMOS has added an ADC to its multicore processors for industrial applications, such as sensors, actuators and motor controllers.

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