camshaft

The camshaft lobes are the parameters being passed as data to the camshaft function.

Speaking of the camshaft, notice that the cam lobes are pressed onto the camshaft, not cut out of a single piece of steel.

This means the camshaft isn’t even straight necessarily but is gear driven which requires more precision than chain, not less.

For example, the camshaft is a function that makes valves open and close.

That means if you don't have a V-Tec or similarly digitally controlled valve steering you have to also modify your camshaft.

A single camshaft sits in the head and drives the inlet and exhaust valves via a rocker shaft.

You're 'printed' camshaft might even fit but it would explode the moment you tried to crank up your car.

The crankshaft gets simpler, but you need to move the secondary piston somehow, presumably off the camshaft?

The parameters tell the camshaft function how far should valves open, and for how much time.

A mechanical one would probably have a camshaft for storing the program and use gears to make measurements and computations.

To you, who has only ever known that an engine has one camshaft profile and that it's fixed, this is madness!

There are a number of questionable claims in this article--that the DeLorean invented turn signals and the overhead camshaft, for example.

Imagine a car rental company that charges you by the millisecond for every component - engine camshaft revolutions, tire rotations, windshield wiper activations, seat heating time and so on, but has the ability to set up alerts for each component so that customers "control" their usage and budget.

Yeah I'm envisioning putting a thousand simplistic robotic "infants" into a vast "playpen" to gather sensor data about their environment, for some (probably smaller) number of deep learning models to ingest the input and guess at output strategies (move this servo, rotate this camshaft this far in that direction, etc) and make predictions about resulting changes to input.