Motor commands issued by the brain to activate arm muscles take two different routes. As a research group has now discovered, many neurons in the spinal cord send their instructions not only towards ...

The 10 billion electric motors sold each year are about to get a face lift. Ubiquitous brushed motors, introduced in the early 19th century, rely on mechanical commutation of electric current in ...

It’s still relitavely early in the year, and all those silicon manufacturers are coming out with new toys to satiate the engineer and hobbyist for years to come. NXP’s offering is the LPC1500, a ...

Graceful Shutdown: Ensuring the motor and controller are shut down safely when the application is stopped. If the application operates on a multicore MCU/DSP/FPGA, an appropriate inter-core ...

Toshiba America Electronic Components has expanded its TX03 MCU series with the announcement of the TMPM375FSDMG MCU. The new MCU is based on the ARM Cortex-M3 core and features a vector engine ...

Mustang owners love aftermarket hardware, especially when the wordis used. Parts machined from ingots of aluminum can be downright sexy, and the pot is sweetened when they serve an actual performance ...

One of the more effective modifications Carroll Shelby did to '65 GT350s was relocate the upper control-arm mounting point in the car's shock towers. The result was more cornering power and a decrease ...

What neural activity in motor cortex represents and how it controls ongoing movement remain unclear. Suggestions that cortex generates low-level muscle control are discredited by correlations with ...

Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Bronco vehicles. The front lower control arm fasteners may not have been tightened properly, allowing the control arm to detach from the frame.

Muscles contract thanks to the work of a protein called myosin. Using energy from adenosine triphosphate, this molecular motor works with fibrils of the protein actin to drive muscle contraction.

The Ford Motor Company has announced it is recalling a select number of 2024 Ranger pickup trucks and 2024–2025 Bronco SUVs due to an issue with the vehicles’ control arms that could increase the risk ...