I waited a couple days after receiving the boards for the new MITERS rework station to show up. It has a heater below the board that preheats everything, and a hot air gun on an arm. Assembly, especially of the TSOP-package parts, was far more pleasant than first time around and turned out way better:
Here's the first one assembled:
There are supposed to be little 1mm pitch JST connectors on the bottom for programming, sensors, and communication, but my cables haven't showed up yet. So for now I'm just programming through soldered in wires.
Controller next to a motor. I strongly considered making the controller the same footprint as the motor, so it could be directly bolted on the back of the motor, but ended up not. Maybe I'll do that for version 3.
Next to the Nucleo and shield it replaces.
I haven't actually driven a motor with it yet (waiting for JST cables to show up), but I've programmed it and confirms it PWM's, bridge doesn't shoot through, etc, so things are looking hopeful.
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ReplyDeleteDo you still have the eagle files for the nucleo shield?
Hey Ben,
ReplyDeleteYou mentioned that it replaced a shield, do you remember what shield it replaced (or other options)? Since I don't have a lot of experience controlling bldc current, I think it would be easier for me getting something pre-made. The only two options that I know of are Odrive (really big for my project) and Maxon driver when using their motors, which are not really dynamic. Thank you in advance and keep up with the blog, it's really interesting!
It replaced a custom board, but ST makes a 3-phase motor control shield for nucleo dev boards:
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It's not very high power, but maybe a good starting point for firmware development.