Homebuilt handmade "3 phase" electric motor

[mackrackit]

So, you're saying, if I were to lay the rotor out flat, it would go: copper wire (shorted to every other piece of copper wire), insulator, slab of something magnetic-able, insulator, another copper wire, etc.etc. I'll give that a shot...

Yep, but you will not need the insulator. The current created and suppressed in the copper is the magnetic insulator.

It did...but it said inducing a current is basically a side effect of the magnetic field. Same thing but different...

OK, must have been a different article, looked it up on wiki to see where you were coming from. Chicken or egg, which came first?

Overlap - I've tried a few different angles so far, even angling the stators the opposite way to the rotor angles...
Spin start - no joy...
Bare metal - that's what I thought...and I've put it back that way.

Not sure about the spin start, never seen one with straight coils. You could add a start sequence to the code like a stepper if needed.
Attached is a bad drawing of what I mean.

I just wanna see this thing spin so I can giggle like a little 12 year old...

Always nice to do something for fun, and not have a dead line.