Man and Machine

Ok...i did my undergrad in Mech engineering(M=respect)...in SIR MVIT...bangalore...india...I did my first paper presentation on snake arm robots while i was doing my undergrad...easy topic one would think...well..actually it is...good enough for your first presenation...snake arm robots are nothing but connector arms controlled by actuators...which have this "cool" ability to manuever around objects and perform the desired tasks....during this research i realized the enormous potential of combining mechanical and electrical engineering ideas..simply called mechatronics....one of my few motivations to do my masters in mechanical engineering was my deep curiosity in mechatronics....however that did not materialize as there was neither a good project that i thought i could work on....and most importantly no funding for the research...which is extremely importanttt!!!...read an article the otherday...on designnews magazine.article called "mechatronic magnetic magic"by Dr Kevin Craig...talking about stepper motor..hmmm...as the name suggests...moves by a small amount"step"...and rotates as the motor is excited by different magnets around it...activated one after the other...this is the electrical part..most of the applications the rotor is used as a normal gear..different gears aligned to this...one gets the desired speed for applications...