[CART360] Vibration Motors

[Morgan Sutherland]

Hello Vincent,

In class you mentioned a piezo-like vibration actuator as part of some toy
or project. "robo" something? Could your, or somebody else, remind me where
to look for this?

In return, I'd like to share some research I've done on vibration motors.
The best source for vibration motors is Precision Microdrives from the UK:
http://www.precisionmicrodrives.com/vibration_motors.php

In North America, Robotshop offers these little guys. Shannon used on in her
exquisite corpse:
http://www.robotshop.ca/solarbotics-vpm2-vibrating-motor.html

I recently came across this very interesting device, a
vibration-speaker-receiver from Namiki:
http://www.namiki.net/product/sbo/speaker/index.html
a patent describing a similar device:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6590991.html

I'm currently waiting to hear back from Joe Malloch[1] (from the IDMIL
[Music Tech, McGill]) about custom motors I'm told that he's designed for
doing sound->vibration. I will report on my findings.

Thanks,
Morgan

1. http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~mallochj/

P.S. Faiq and I will be posting sporadically on our progress at
http://rgel.posterous.com/
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