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November 8, 2012 Machine Design

How Hot Rodders Soup up Electric Motors
How to Make CAM Followers in Plastic
How to Make Plastic Out of Plants
How to Dodge Danger With Air Logic

Editorial Comment

  • Nov. 6, 2012
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    More green cards, more H-1B visas

    Microsoft was recently in the news because it came up with a new scheme for more H-1B visas. H-1B, of course, lets U.S. companies employ foreign workers in such highly specialized occupations as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)...More
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    Google’s got nothing on Cat

    Much has been made of Google’s self-driving cars. Fitted with AI software and an array of sensors, the computer-controlled fleet recently surpassed 300,000 road miles without an accident...More

News

  • Nov. 6, 2012
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    Gimbal mount expands drones’ view

    Gimbal mount expands drones’ view...More
  • Nov. 6, 2012
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    Machine Design

    How to hot rod an electric motor 1

    It’s not your father’s electric motor that powers 800-hp drag bikes and dragsters...More
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    Machine Design

    Nanotube transistors fit for space

    Researchers at the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., are designing single-walled carbon nanotube-based transistors (SWCNT) that are protected against the ionizing radiation found in outer space and the Van Allen Belt...More
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    How to build an airplane at home

    How to build an airplane at home...More
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    Machine Design

    How to convert technical manuals

    Your best bet in upgrading a CAD file from one format to another is to first store the source CAD file in a neutral file format, such as IGES or STEP....More
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    Letters 11/08/2012

    Many readers volunteered to stick up for Tennessee against an earlier letter writer who didn’t seem to have too high an opinion of that southern state. Another reader bemoans the small print in his employment agreement...More

Scanning the Field

Sensor Sense

Backtalk

  • Nov. 6, 2012
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    Machine Design

    Backtalk 11/08/2012

    300-year-old thermometer resurfaces Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit had a strong interest in natural science and a fascination with new inventions. In 1714, he invented the mercury thermomete...More

Looking Back

  • Nov. 6, 2012
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    Machine Design

    Looking Back 11/8/12

    Practicing to the extreme: If you ever wanted to learn extreme sports such as skateboarding, snowboarding, or surfing, now’s your chance. Pivit LLC, Franklin Lakes, N.J., has designed a durable fiberglass balance board...More

Inventor's Corner

  • Nov. 6, 2012
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    Compact engine packs a powerful punch

    Paul Karlan first thought up his Karlan Cam Engine for surface vehicles about 50 years ago when he was trying to figure out a different way to change the reciprocating motion of pistons to rotary motion....More

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