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Disassembling CD-Rom drives

A project log for CO-AFM - Cheap Open source Atomic Force Microscope

The design of a low cost, quasi nano-scale, Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), using 3d printing and open-source software.

edward-borgEdward Borg 08/20/2014 at 04:150 Comments

Disassembled 3 old CD-Roms I collected from the scrap in order to source linear threaded shafts that can be used for the x, y and z translations in the AFM. Combined with the steppers that have a large gear ratio and low degree of rotation per step this should provide decent resolution.

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