For many years now a source for some of the smallest and cheapest home made CNC mechanisms has been the seemingly never-ending supply of surplus CD and DVD-ROM drives. The linear actuator that ...

Ball screw or belt drive? Let the application decide. Cost-effective actuators capable of precise linear motion are in growing demand by machine builders. Two of the more widely used actuator ...

As anyone who has experimented with their own home-made CNC machinery will tell you ... so when he needed a precision linear stage for a personal project he achieved micron level accuracy for ...