[Raul] built a cheap linear actuator out of a drawer slide and a surplus flatbed scanner. A few builds we’ve seen, like the PCB drill press or the horribly inefficient thermostat, used linear ...

What if the future of electric motors didn’t rely on bulky copper windings or heavy steel components? Ziroth outlines how Printed Circuit Board (PCB) motors are flipping the script on traditional ...

Weighing less than 0.5 oz, the MigaOne shape memory alloy (SMA) motor is a linear actuator built directly onto a PCB substrate. The motor is less than 0.1 in. thick and provides a 3/8-in. stroke at ...

Boston-based ECM PCB Stator Tech is demonstrating the company’s PrintStator Motor CAD design-to-manufacture tool at CES 2024 (taking place Jan. 9-12, 2024 in Las Vegas). The event will mark the ...

Designing and manufacturing electric motors is taking a few steps forward thanks to continuing work by ECM PCB Stator Technology – developers of a patented technology for printed circuit board stators ...

NEEDHAM, MA / ACCESS Newswire / June 4, 2026 / ECM PCB Stator Tech, a U.S. leader in next-generation electric motor design innovation, today released ECM100: Air-Core Motors for Haptic Applications.

The New England Aquarium (NEA), based in Boston, recently commissioned ECM to replace a conventional 2.2-kW pump motor, used to service a tank responsible for the rehabilitation of injured sea turtles ...

ECM100, the latest engineering technical note from ECM’s R&D team led by Dr. Steven Shaw, Ph.D., shows how eliminating cogging torque at the motor level is the key to building haptic systems, robots, ...