We are taking a quick break from our series of helping you mount your vibration motors, see AB-006 for PCBs and AB-007 for Bulkheads, but we’re not moving far from it. Our latest Application Bulletin will help readers with connecting their vibration motors to their drive circuitry. The connection method can depend on your choice of motor, and there are lots of options available in our webstore. We can help advise how to secure your vibration motor leads, which…

In our travels we have recently stumbled upon and thought of a few interesting directional haptic feedback applications. That is to say a system that provides the user with information through tactile feedback, which also includes a directional or positional component. We previously wrote about Ford’s lane keeping technology, a safety system which helps alert drivers when they begin to drift on the road. This reminded us of an article we previously read, actually over a year ago now.…

In our most recent Application Bulletin, AB 008 : Vibration Motor Best Practices from the Mobile / Cell Phone Industry, we shed some light on the most common techniques for implementing vibration alerting or haptic feedback in a mobile device. The mobile / cell phone industry can be a great resource as it’s often at the forefront of consumer technology. Their designs for vibration motors and their circuitry are perfect for most handheld and mobility applications, and there’s usually…

Continuing our series on help with mounting vibration motors, and following on from AB-006 : Mechanical Mounting for Vibration Motors - to PCBs, our most recent application bulletin looks at mounting motors to bulkheads. If you’re not familiar with the term ‘bulkhead’, we mean a flat rigid surface large enough to place the vibration motor on. This could range from a metal chute in a mechanical aid application, to part of a plastic mobile phone enclosure. Aside from PCBs,…

With this weeks release of the 84th Academy Awards Oscar nominations we were delighted to see ‘Hugo’ named across multiple categories, including for the prestigious Best Picture and Best Director awards. The reason we are so excited is that if you look closely (really, really closely) we are actually in the film! Well, sort of. Precision Microdrive gearmotors' have a starring role inside the film’s automaton (our 248-401 12v gear motor to be precise) - a small robotic man,…