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This idea didn't work well (31 January 2006); see the Results section at the end | |||||||
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This idea didn't work well (31 January 2006); see the Results section at the end. There is a much better idea here. | |||||||
| At the RepRap project we have a never-ending discussion about the relative merits of stepper motors (simple, implicitly digital, but low torque and expensive) and DC motors (more complicated to control, but high-torque and cheap). This small discussion mirrors a much larger one that has been going on for years in the machine tool and robotics industries. It hasn't been resolved there, so we probably won't arrive at a definitive answer either. | ||||||||