Quote Originally Posted by curious aardvark View Post
very neat !

Although this made me laugh:
Apart from the coil, magnet, brushes and commutator collectors
lol - like a reprap printer: 'well it's self replicating apart from: rods, electronics, cables, motors, extruders etc'.
I tried getting the commutator and brushes printed, but they're too thin for shapeways, even with their higher end metals. I'm working on a couple of changes that might make them printable and still maintain the outside shape. It's a bummer though: i was hoping to have this fully 3d printed while maintaining the exact dimensions for each component as the original.

As for the magnets, i had thought about using the protopasta magnetic filament and then zap them to polarize positive and negative, but i don't know if that would work or even have a clue how to go about it yet.

The wire...well...i think for this design, we can just leave that as wire.

For this project, i'm strictly trying to stay within the size and shape of the original motor, however i'm also working on a concept for a larger, non-standard motor that would be in fact 100% printed, including the coil.