[BrianG]

So, you want to build a burshless motor. And from the sounds of it, it will only be a two pole motor.

One thing you're missing is a controller. A brushed motor uses contacts to switch the polarity of the electricity going to the windings at the appropriate time to attract and then repel against a stationary magent, giving motion. The only thing a brushed ESC gives you is brake, reverse, and efficient speed control by sending high speed pulses of DC to the motor instead of pure DC. The duty cycle of the pulses (width of the "on" pulse vs the width of the "off" time) is what determines speed. The same thing could be done simply by sending a reduced voltage to the motor, but there are a lot more power losses doing this compared to the PWM control. if you only need forward motion with no speed control, you can really do away with a controller for a brushed motor since the brushes and contacts take care of switching the polarity to create motion. A brushless motor on the other hand, needs to have the switching of the polarity done at the controller; otherwise the shaft will turn a little and then lock. The controller sends a succession of PWM signals to the windings causing rotation.

If the parts you listed is all you're given, I don't think you can make a BL type of motor. A brushed motor would be much easier even though it won't be as cool. Although it's not going to be too easy because they didn't give you a whole lot of material to work with.

As far as the winding orientation. Picture wrapping a wire a number of times around a ferrite rod (in your case, a paper clip). The ends of the rod would be the N and S poles, depending on the polarity of the battery. Your permanent magnet will have N and S poles too. You just have to make it so the poles from the rod and the permanent magnet come VERY close to meeting so the lines of magnetic flux are concentrated the most, while still allowing the rod to rotate. Obviously, the wired rod will have to be on an axis (so it sorta looks like a propeller) and then you'll have to make brush contacts of some kind attached to the non-conductive axis. The ends of the windings will attach to these contacts. You can use more paper clips as the brushes, which will go to the battery.

I hope this helped and wasn't too simple for you...