But shipping outside the US is prohibitively high, so he decided to try making his own disks with a 3D printer and the smallest neodymium magnets on Earth. The pre-fab encoder disks don’t have ...

[Long Haired Hacker] has undertaken a high-resolution 3D printer build. He got his hands on some motors to drive the build platform but it doesn’t have a built-in encoder. He knows that optical ...

Several characteristics should be considered when choosing printer-encoders and applicators, such as adjustability, accuracy, media capacity, application method, form factor, power and connections, ...