Back in the day, engineers didn’t have many options for moving an object from one point to another in a straight line. These ...

The encoder market is advancing steadily as automation, robotics, and digital control systems become integral to industrial and consumer applications. Encoders—devices that convert motion into ...

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CNCs come in many forms, including mills, 3D printers, lasers, and plotters, but one challenge seems universal: there’s ...

The Light Stage 3 (2002) was the first physical set to use an array of RGB LED lights surrounding an actor to create an ...

IKO International has introduced the PD…S X-Y parallel drive stage that removes the barriers that often exist in the work ...

A magnetic encoder is mounted on the stepper motor to determine when the motor stalls, while the servo has its internal position encoder brought out as a means of detecting how far the shackle has ...

Motion control is hardly a small matter to get to grips with in today’s ever-more automated age. Indeed, it has been ...