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swiftcodertoday at 11:01 AM2 repliesview on HN

This is the same design that enables the PCB Stator Motors, right?


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klafftoday at 2:39 PM

Yes. If you have a laser printer, that windup sound you hear at the start of a job is the polygon mirror motor spinning up thousands of RPMs - those are PCB stator motors. As were VCR head motors.

utopiahtoday at 1:15 PM

"Advantages : A motor can be built upon any flat structure, such as a PCB, by adding coils and a bearing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_flux_motor with image of "A miniature DC brushless axial motor used in a Digital Data Storage drive, showing the integration with PCB construction techniques."