I designed Robot Vehicles for a STEM course and found that Toy DC Motors are flawed now.
For a maker's course, I created simple, easy to build vehicles for the kids to take home at the end of the course. The vehicles have all moving parts visible, and its functioning is easy to understand. While creating my vehicles, I learned that toy motors are not what they used to be.
Join me on my deep'ish dive into toy DC motors and see why some of them suck now.
Hackaday.io Project:
https://hackaday.io/project/196895-a-...
Model on Printables.com:
https://www.printables.com/model/9155...
00:00 Intro: A simple Line Follower
00:53 The Problem with Toy DC Motors
03:04 Measuring Motor Parameters
04:46 Modern Toy Motors are Flawed!
07:32 Modifying my Motors
09:07 My Line Followers in action