A very interesting idea indeed. Now, where's an old CDROM drive.....

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> From:         William Chops Westfield[SMTP:billw@CISCO.COM]
> Reply To:     pic microcontroller discussion list
> Sent:         Tuesday, December 16, 1997 12:20 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Servo Laser Control
>
> The read/write head of CDROM drive has a pretty impressive set of
> degrees of
> fine motion that I image are used for focus and "fine" movement.  Has
> anyone
> experiemented with these?  It might make "reasonable" patterns (given
> the
> addition of a visible laser) at a 'reasonable' distance, and it
> certainly
> ought to be pretty fast...
>
> BillW
>