Crunchysteve#electronics #controlelectronics #wordplay #nerdplay
Well. I never knew this before. After a youth spent dicking about with RC planes and cars (often with unsuccessful, frequently destructive, results) and lately investigating such for hi-hat lifting in my robotic drums project, I have always pondered why servo motors were called such. Apparently it's a pun on the French terms for "brain" and "server" - there is often quite a bit of logic involved in the control of such feedback systems so, on the one hand, the motor is "intelligent" but it is "enslaved" to the controller. Fing colonial language, if you ask me. I may start referring to them in notes and to brainy mates as "control feedback motors" or CF motors, for short. Interesting all the same.
https://rexroth-us.com/blog/why-do-we-call-it-a-servomotor/
Why Do We Call It a Servomotor? - Rexroth-US
You may call it a servo motor, servo-motor, servomotor, or just a servo. Indramat called their 20th century original an “AC Servo.” Why? Servo or cerveau? While it has been suggested that the French cerveau (brain) might be the root for this term, it’s more likely to be the Latin servus, which gives us... Read more »
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