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Pickup Winder DC Motor Control Prototyping

I Have a Dream

…of one day playing a show with all gear that I made. Guitar, amp, pedals, all of it made my me. I don’t plan to all the way, I’ll be buying the potentiometers and caps and probably most of the hardware. I do, however, plan to make the pickups.

I’m also going to make the machine to wind the pickups. That’s what I’ve been poking at lately. As of now I have a very basic PWM based speed control for a brushed DC motor. I scavenged the motor from an air bed pump I got at Goodwill. It was a couple bucks and has a good basis for everything I’ll need to get up and running.

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