If you're looking for clever ways to repurpose any of the old CD or DVD players that might be scattered around your house, we ...

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[Frank Herrmann] had an interesting idea to turn a geared DC motor into a servo motor assembly, but with a stepper motor-like interface. By stacking some small PCBs behind the motor body, it was po… ...

One Instructables user built what they called an "Arduino-Based CNC Plotter" using three salvaged CD drives, an Arduino Uno, EasyDriver stepper motor modules, and some basic mounting hardware.