For many applications, mechanical cams are unrivaled by any competitors, electronic or otherwise. In machine design, indexing is the movement from an initial position to a new position, starting and ...

Camshafts are one of the most confusing components in an internal combustion engine. What makes those lumpy bumpsticks even more confounding is the sheer number of grinds available, and then multiply ...

Everyone knows how to make a POV laser display — low-mass, first-surface mirrors for the X- and Y-axes mounted on galvanometers driven rapidly to trace out the pattern. [Evan Stanford] found a simpler ...

The bumps and grinds business has gone scientific. Camshaft technology has advanced dramatically in recent years, and nowhere is this newfound sophistication more readily apparent than on the street.

In machine design, indexing is the movement from an initial position to a new position, starting and ending in rest. What applications require such motion? Machine tool changers, beverage cappers, and ...

is the Robert C. Greenheck chair in engineering design and a professor of mechanical engineering, College of Engineering, Marquette University. In mechatronic design, integration is the key as ...

It's appropriate, we think, that a camshaft has lobes, since this relatively simple device is so often called the brains of an engine. And indeed, a camshaft does direct several engine functions in a ...