Independent Research · 2026
A 3D-Printed Piezo Stick-Slip Motor That Runs on 15 Volts, Built and Measured at Home
Four months, a $449 scope, two printers and a home-built interferometer:
the full write-up of a 3D-printed stick-slip piezoelectric motor driven at 15 V,
with every file, number and failure.
13 sections in 18 parts: 16 published 2026-08-25, 2 coming September 2026.
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FilesCAD, firmware, capture scripts, data and this text are published with the project repository.
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Kwon, S. Y. (2026). A 3D-Printed Piezo Stick-Slip Motor That Runs on 15 Volts, Built and Measured at Home. Soon Young Kwon. https://www.soonyoungkwon.com/piezo/
@misc{kwon2026_piezo,
author = {Kwon, Soon Young},
title = {A 3D-Printed Piezo Stick-Slip Motor That Runs on 15 Volts, Built and Measured at Home},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.soonyoungkwon.com/piezo/}},
note = {Part of the series: A 3D-printed 15 V piezo motor, built at home. Soon Young Kwon},
}How this was written. Bench work, data and text by the author; drafted and edited with AI assistance (Claude). Every number is tagged Measured, Derived or Estimated and cited.
Text and images CC BY 4.0 unless noted.
Changelog
- 2026-08-25 · first published.