CD Rom XY Bed

 For my next project i am going to build an actual microscope from scratch, including all of the optics (i have a set of rms thread 4, 10, 40 and 100 times microscope objective on the way)

my plan is to have the entire thing mechanized along the x,y and z axis so that i can do precise focus stacked images and stitch them together for one obscenely large closeup of whatever i can get my hands on, for a cheap x,y bed i bolted together a matched set of CD Rom assemblies and epoxied the bolts for extra support

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next on my schedule is to finish my last project, mostly code plus a cross slide that needs finishing