#663 – Motors on PCBs with Carl Bugeja

Welcome Carl Bugeja!

• Carl lives and works in Malta


• He got started with robotics at his university


• Carl recently announced he would be launching a new company


• The company is called Microbots and they will sell components and kits for building similar projects to what Carl shows on his channel


• BigHero6 reference


• https://microbots.io/products/flatflap


• Max PCB temp is 130C


• Driven by series resistance of coil


• Tg value of PCBs


• A circuit that can solder itself


• How hot can a Flex PCB get?


• Batch vs raster


• Do you math?


• Tryng to get the perfect temperatures and dealing with flex materials


• Dealing with manufacturing differnces


• Scanning PCB Coils with X-Rays


• Sending PCB specs


• Incoming inspection and testing


• Testing boards with resistance


• Time flap produce


• User testing


• Drive circuits – How do you evaluate?


• Don’t build your own H Bridge


• Optimizing for size


• Is Carl looking for other features?


• Building libraries for driver


• Foldable 4 wheeled robot , an all one PCB


• ESP32-C3, connected to playstation remote


• Boston Dynamics uncanny valley


• Gathering on social


• Top down vs bottom up (start at the top)


• Prior to YouTube, Carl worked at a startup
  
  
  
  • Drones – 2 prop
  
  
  • Bluetooth tags
  
  
  
  


• Later he moved to the automotive industry
  
  
  
  • Concept vehicles
  
  
  • Software
  
  
  
  


• What’s in Malta?


• Building a remote electronics business


• Remote actuators on a PCB


• Microbots Flexar Driver


• Driving down the price per cell


• Similar to how they drove down the cost of LCD displays


• Pixel, voxel, moxel, maxel?


• Flipdots


• PCB Actuation


• Find Carl on YouTube and Instagram, and check out his work on the new Microbots site!