There’s great potential in salvaging a motor from a broken appliance, but so often the part in question is very specific to its application, presenting a puzzle of wires to the experimenter. This was ...

When a shrimping boat breaks down in Cut Off, Louisiana, you sort of just leave it there. The 6,000 person town, a proudly Cajun community one hour south of New Orleans, is littered with rusted hulls ...

Big ol’ motors are great when you need to get a big job done, but they can be expensive or hard to source new. However, there’s a source of big, fat, juicy motors right at home for most people – the ...

Higher motor efficiency is a Good Thing – It’s unlikely that any design engineer ever said, “Gee, if only I could find a really inefficient motor for my next design.” When I was working on an article ...

In an example of ingenuity that will likely make any electric-bike enthusiast grin, a Reddit user named @jimminecraftguy has created an e-bike out of a washing machine. He's repurposed the motor to ...