Quantity   Component name
4 × Arduino Uno Three to provide the motor board control, one to run the sensing gear.
3 × Arduino Motorshield REV3 Add on shield for arduino. Based on the L298 H-Bridge chipset the Motorshield can power up to 2 motors at 2A or 1 motor at 4A. I am of course using it because it simplified the creation of my AC Power from DC.
1 × Solidworks For all that pesky hardware design
2 × Copper Float Valve Each being sawed in half to provide the inductive copper shell for the spherical motor.
1 × IMU - 9250/6500 Drone Navigation Chip Also contains a magnetometer for detecting the strength of my magnetic field. Coupled with the IMU and the arduino's internal timer this give me the flux density in both space and time.
1 × Floor Piece 6mm Plywood, provides mounting slots for all aspect of the design.
3 × Supporting Structure for Induction Model 12* Plywood Braces, an Acrylic Roof Structure and 4 bearing mounting blocks.
5 × Force Transfer Bearings (Roller Bearings) For supporting and allowing the sphere to rotate.
4 × 90 Degree Stators Made from laminated, laser-cut, sheel sheets
24 × Coils Enamalled AWG 19 Copper Wire
187 × 5x5mm Neodynium Magnets [N45] For the BLDC Rotor
1 × Hollow Sphere Flux Core 56 sheets of mild steel tacked together and placed inside of the copper shell.
1 × Ansys Maxwell FEA simulation software. Free uni software, hopefully this wil indicate if I am at all in the right ball park.
1 × Laptop with MatLab Used to create analytical model, also used to compile data received from the sensing arduino.
1 × Arduino Mega The Master Controller for the 3-Phase Power