Cartesian robot(X,Y,Z-axis)

Wow!!!

A new world is opening...

CD drives ok!,(basicly I just need like 10-20 cm of motion or less...) I just walked by ten or so down in the basement. How do you get them out in one piece? I have never opened one...
(I love working at a place were the equipment is replaced each 3-5 years (University) and everything is piled up in the basement, waiting to be destructed or recycled.
How do you wire them? Is there something special to think about?
I guess their movement are more precise then others(?)...which suits my project perfectly. Small microbial things = bigger machines and greater precision...

Maybe this will end up becoming a microbial printer...hmm...replication on plates will be quit easy...I just have to find a nice "positioning system" for the project...

wow! Maybe I could mount a thin glas rod on an arm (servo, stepper motor aided) and be able to make an potentiometer controlled micromanipulator for the microscope with ability to separate yeast cell and collect small worms, fly eggs, etc etc (small things) and organise them in a pattern.

Hmm...I think I had to much coffein today....ideas erupting lik..,Hey... I could make a chemostat with help of the Kegarator project found at MAKE!!!

Igor have a lot of things to do....Mohahahahaha....BEAMS!!!! I must have beams Every Mad scientist uses beams.... Ill show them...Mohahahaha....(maybe for range detection then (No,be serious!)...but i would be cool with neon green when the light are turned of...Evil style...a couple of LEDs will solve it)

Pimp my scientific project...WOAW!!! :sunglasses: