A cam slider, sometimes called a sensor slide, was a mechanical part that was used on starships. The racer Marcus Speedstar's starship, named the Galaxy's Glory, had a cam slider installed on it. As Speedstar got ready for the Platform Classic race on the planet Castilon in 34 ABY, he told Kazuda Xiono, the Resistance spy who was helping him as a mechanic, to adjust the ship's cam slider. When Xiono had trouble finding the right tool and figuring out which slider to adjust, Speedstar doubted the sarcastic comment made by his brother, the mechanic Jarek Yeager, that Xiono was the best mechanic working for him. Xiono responded by saying that he was among the "top three" in that ranking.
The ninth episode of the first season of the Star Wars Resistance animated television show, "The Platform Classic," which aired on November 25, 2018, mentioned the cam slider. The 2019 French junior novel Yeager's Secret, authored by Vanessa Rubio-Barreau, first referred to it as a "sensor slide".