That’s because brushless DC motors require carefully timed signals used in a process called Electronic Speed Control (ESC). [Fileark] built and ESC using an Arduino and has a couple of posts ...

Need a powerful electric motor on the ... than a simple two wire DC motor. They also discuss some of their favorite ways to control the motors ranging from a light switch to an Arduino.

grbl is stepper motor controller firmware for three-axis cnc machines ... that are too powerful for the normal drivers included on grbl Arduino shields (or integrated Arduino+drivers equivalents), and ...

Permanent magnet dc motors need a chunky inductor ... engineering was to do two things: get this controller and motor running again, and then add an electrically-safe interface to allow remote control ...