What can I do with this board?

Possible applications range all the way from simply substituting a servo motor in your project, over the high precision motion control of camera gimbals all the way to the highly dynamical applications such as robotics.

This board can also be a cool platform for student projects, to make experiments such as ball and plate, inverted pendulums, segways, inertia wheels and similar. These setups are usually very expensive and hard to calibrate and design.

Motivation

As for the SimpleFOCShields, the main motivation of this board is to make using low-power BLDC motors in hobby applications more accessible. The main goals of this board however are:

Produce a small package BLDC driver that still has all the features of the SimpleFOCShield v1 Make it in away to be a minimal working example for users that are interested to build their own boards based on the DRV8313 chip. Make it as cheap as possible. Use only long-term (as of mid 2022) available components. Finally, the goal of this board is to provide a modular and simple setup for controlling gimbal motors (up to 3Amps) using FOC control and enable fast prototyping and full exploitation of their capabilities.

This board in combination with the SimpleFOClibrary will give you a simple and intuitive way to control the BLDC motors' current, torque, velocity and position. And this board can be used as a drop in replacement for the SimpleFOCShield v1

Shipping List

SimpleFOCMini board *1