Electric motors consume almost half of the electricity produced worldwide. They, in fact, provide the necessary driving force for much of today’s equipment. Motors, pumps, and fans are present in an ...

If you’ve been reading Hack a Day for long enough, you know about our infatuation with stepper motors. These precious little devices put the oomph into our CNC routers, 3D printers, robots, and other ...

Is your motor spinning at the intended rate? Closed-loop motor control systems continue to answer this question, as there tends to be a closed-loop system implemented wherever a motor spins. Whether ...

Introduction and acknowledgments -- Sketches of the founders. Lovell Lawrence, Jr. ; James Hart Wyld ; John Shesta ; Hugh Franklin Pierce -- pt. I. The roots of RMI : James H. Wyld and his ...