Andrew Mayo wrote:
> 
> I am quite curious as to how they control the little mirrors they sweep
> the beam with etc, as this seems not to be well-documented - I'd be
> interested to hear how you go.

A solution could be a (thin) polished mirror fastened to the voice coil
>from hard drive (per axis) I made a PID solenoid controller a few years
ago (16C71) and used a Maxtor voice coil to test it. I was amazed at the
hammering these little beasts can take without even heating up (1A 12V).
They are extremely fast as well...

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