Campus Workshops
The following labs on campus have significant experience in motor design and control.
‘EV Lab’
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The MIT Electric Vehicle Team’s ‘EV Lab’ maintains a lot of high-precision testing equipment for electric vehicles, batteries, and motors. The lab has a chassis dynamometer for motorcycles, electronic loads and resistance testers, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and more. Check out their full equipment list here and email them at l2f@mit.edu to schedule use of their equipment!
MITERS N52 First Floor
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The MIT Electronic Research Society is a community makerspace dedicated to electronics. Some of the craziest vehicles you’ll have ever seen have come out of MITERS including Charles Guan’s LOLriokart Cart, as well as some amazing contributions in motors research including Ben Katz’s Motor Controller. Everyone’s super friendly, super smart, and super willing to help! No experience required!
Online Resources
The following websites / links provide incredibly helpful tips and tutorials for learning motor design, and control.
Parts Sites
Note that these links are not paid advertisements, rather reccomendations based on previous projects we have done.