Design Technology
Cams
Web Links to support our work on cams:
- Northumberland NGfL: A cam mechanism – an excellent presentation on cams.
- Soft Integration.com – Two very different cam applications are animated here.
- Wikipedia’s Cam animation – super animation!
- Welsh NGfL: Cams Activity – investigate the purpose of the different parts of the mechanism.
- Animated examples of cam followers in use
- Wikipedia: Real cams inside an engine
- Rob Ives’ Paper Animated Cams
- D&T Online: Cam definition
- How Stuff Works.com: Camshafts
- Technology Student.com: Cams – An interesting use of a cam to play the cymbals.
