Make your own ESC || BLDC Motor Driver (Part 1)

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In this two part video series I will firstly demonstrate how a common ESC works and afterwards create a circuit consisting of an Arduino Nano, an L6234 motor driver IC and a couple of complementary components in order to make a DIY ESC.

Music:
2011 Lookalike by Bartlebeats
Ecstatic Wave, Jens Kiilstofte

[jonesrichardmr]

I like that you explain how the individual components work in detail and not just what they do, can be difficult to visualise from a datasheet sometimes. Waiting for part 2 :)

[tsstn]

This is the kind of content the internet was made for. Thank you so much for posting all these great videos. You are a great teacher to us less knowledgeable tinkerers. I love your content. And I would like to say also, your english is very clear and very good. I am glad to have your channel in my sub. list.

[alimakkaya]

I just watched your "Make your own time machine" video. It worked like a charm :D

[brettito]

You should make scans of your wiring diagrams. It's art, man!

[neatoelectro]

I love your hand drawn schematics. You should sell them as art. Freaking gorgeous.

[DuMStuFFrc]

Thank you for making this series! I've showered the internet for such a video several times

[ilhamwinar]

great! i have searching this on internet but you made it. thanks for the video, its helping me to understand a little bldc works.

[PaulBrunt]

Looking forward to seeing the quadcopter finished this year 🙂

[rebeccajoy]

I'm curious about holding current from the ESC for an application when you want to hold the motor still under varying load

[douglaskoo]

Great Scott, great job, I admire your determination to accomplish the Quadcopter project !

[Dan-ger]

Every time I hear your intro music I cant help but think of the Mr Wizard tv show I grew up watching as a kid.

[revoxsvko]

Yeah! i knowed that will be something with motors his week :D

[Wrathwithin]

I love the frequency of 20 milliseconds. It's the perfect rotational speed.

[anandquest]

Finally a tutorial I've been waiting for.. But until now I somehow managed to save money to buy a new one.

[saikiran-kzvn]

thank u very much to make a video on esc, i like u r videos

[diyguild]

Do you keep your drawings and schematics? Your handwriting is beautiful and very clean. I'm not sure if you've ever considered scanning them for a pdf download but that would be really cool to have. Thanks for the great content

[TheCarlos]

Great Work Scott, I´ve been trying to make an arduino ESC controller for a couple of years!! This help me a lot! THX

[grindlord]

Thank you. I couldn't find any video in YouTube where we can make our own esc. thank you very much

[Chickenbreadlp]

I once programmed an Arduino to function as a very basic ESC. It couldn't start the Motor on it's own and changing the motor speed while the motor was spinning caused the motor to stop. But as long as you start the motor by hand and don't change the speed, it works.


That was for a school project where we were supposed to build a DC motor, while many failed, and some didn't really fulfill the task, I had to overdone it ^^'

[emikosuzuki]

On which software do you simulate the circuit?