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shadowsword87 posted...

Also remember that without an absolute positioning on the motor, you're going to need to be dead reckoning the exact position. With slippage especially you're going to just drift what your micro thinks the position is, and what's physically there. Little errors that build up over time until your saftey measures take over.
That's the reason why people use steppe motors, going with what people have already used lets you grow from them. You'll basically have to reinvent the wheel.

Oh no... I don't like hearing that.

I'll think it over a bit before responding. But while I am, what if I just took a servo motor, removed to gearbox, kept the measuring mechanism, and just created a custom driver?

I've heard someone jumping from one field to another while disrespecting the field they're jumping to is a common thing.