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If you are [Tech Build] you go all MacGyver on an old printer and pull out a stepper motor. How does a stepper motor turn into an encoder? Well, that’s the MacGyver part.

Consider a side-by-side comparison of a traditional, open loop step motor system and a fully closed loop system with incremental encoder and servo control firmware that close the current loop of ...

Stepper motors have several attributes. They generate incremental motion and generally run open-loop, and this eliminates the cost and complexity of an encoder or resolver.

How optical rotary encoders can provide real-time motion feedback on motion applications using stepper motor-driven linear actuators.