I am making my own small CNC.
Now I do have step motors but I ma in lack of drivers. Nor am I going to buy them any time soon. But what I have is a lot of floppy drives.
I did change the connection from the internal motors to the external ones and my small Arduino Uno based CNC with floppy drives works.
The only problem for the floppy drivers is that it can only do 80 steps. It won't go beyond 80 unless.
I can't remember which feed rate I used in the cnc engraving software, but either way I can with my current setup only use around 2cm*2cm area.
Now is there a possibility that a driver can also be hacked to let's say reset the amount of taken steps each time the motor does move?