In this video, Mike tries to recreate the well-known McLellan smallest electric motor, which fits inside a 0.4 mm cube.
While smaller devices have been made using lithography, the McLellan motor is the tiniest handmade electric motor ever built.
In this video, Mike tries to recreate the well-known McLellan smallest electric motor, which fits inside a 0.4 mm cube.
While smaller devices have been made using lithography, the McLellan motor is the tiniest handmade electric motor ever built.
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No, he didn’t use any electronics at all!
He built a replica of his motor, identical to the first, except that it was many times larger, then connected each coil on the giant version to the equivalent on the original.
Turning the rotor on the larger unit (now acting as a generator) produced the exact fields in the smaller, that were required to turn the rotor.