Lexington's Lexicon

     This post marks the beginning of my motor design guide!  I have been wanting to build a functioning motor for a while now, but only now do I feel I have enough knowledge (related to motors and fabrication) to complete the task.  It was a year ago when I first started really reading about motors and understanding them comprehensively.  This initial interest led me to an internship that I have only just completed that revolved heavily around brushless motors.  I certainly wasn't the one designing them, but I got to talk with and work alongside the engineers who did and we're going to find out just how much they rubbed off on me.     The goal of this guide is to lead someone with little understanding of motors, step-by-step, through the design process of an outrunner, sinusoidal, radial flux, PMSM motor with concentrated windings of their specifications.  This guide will even held them identify their desired specifications if they don'...

     Having been almost 2 months since my last post, I thought it best to capture my thoughts in a non-technical update in order to re-focus myself before I head back to school.  My internship and community college classes ended recently.  Both went well.  I learned a vast amount from working my internship and have emerged feeling twice the engineer that I was going in.  I have also developed good relationships with many of my coworkers and hope to continue talking with many of them.  I received passing grades in my community college courses which is good enough for transfer (grade is not transferred with credit) and now I don't have to waste time with non-STEM classes at GT.  These two things have been taking up quite a lot of my time, my weekdays occupied by work and Saturdays by classes, but not so much time that I have had to stop working on personal projects.  In fact, I would say that I have not done as much as I would have liked t...