{"id":162,"date":"2014-06-03T18:52:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T18:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de.w01205cb.kasserver.com\/cms\/?p=162"},"modified":"2017-02-20T08:26:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T08:26:38","slug":"mendocino-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Mendocino Motor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dXlzJYjon1s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\nA Mendocino Motor is an optically commutated, magnetically levitating, solar powered Rotor.<br \/>\nThis one consists of 3,6mm plywood and was completely machined with my CNC mill. The Design has been accomlished in Google Sketchup, the G-Code was generated with the Phlatscript plugin.<br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de.w01205cb.kasserver.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mendocino-base-sketchup.jpg\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de.w01205cb.kasserver.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mendocino-base-sketchup-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"mendocino base sketchup\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-163\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mendocino-base-sketchup-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mendocino-base-sketchup-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mendocino-base-sketchup.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de.w01205cb.kasserver.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mendocino-rotor-sketchup.jpg\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de.w01205cb.kasserver.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mendocino-rotor-sketchup-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"mendocino rotor sketchup\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-164\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mendocino-rotor-sketchup-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mendocino-rotor-sketchup-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mendocino-rotor-sketchup.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de.w01205cb.kasserver.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20120801_191328.jpg\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de.w01205cb.kasserver.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20120801_191328-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"20120801_191328\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-165\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20120801_191328-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20120801_191328-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de.w01205cb.kasserver.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mendocino.jpg\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de.w01205cb.kasserver.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mendocino-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mendocino\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mendocino-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mendocino-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\nThe dimensions can be estimated from the screenshots. After milling the parts are taken out of the plywood sheets (cut the tabs that hold them in place) and just pressed together, no glue necessary!<br \/>\nThe 2 coils have ~100 turns each with 0,3mm enamelled copper wire. The solar cells are capable of delivering 200mA at 0,5V.<br \/>\nAt the end of the rotor that has contact to the mirror a tip of a pencil has been inserted (see pic above) to minimize friction, due to the lubricating properties of graphite.<br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/> <\/p>\n<p>Sketchup files (1 for the base and 1 for the rotor):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SketchUp-files.zip\">SketchUp files<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mendocino Motor is an optically commutated, magnetically levitating, solar powered Rotor. This one consists of 3,6mm plywood and was completely machined with my CNC mill. The Design has been accomlished in Google Sketchup, the G-Code was generated with the Phlatscript plugin. The dimensions can be estimated from the screenshots. After milling the parts are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/?p=162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mendocino Motor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}