Stepper motor with a gear drives a rubber belt to move the table in very small increments.
Xy table using stepper motor.
Pic controlled stepper motor xy table for a harbor freight drill press.
Stepper motors will work our slightly under powered setup cost about 100 but we decided to use the pololu jrk 21v3 motor controllers 50 with motors like the lynxmotion ghm 16 22 you can get those elsewhere they are 12v 200rpm gearhead motors with 6mm shafts nicely close to the 1 4 shafts we are using.
Attached you can see an end view of the x drive stepper motor it s drive gear the belt it drives it s limit switch for homing the bed and the bars on one side that moves it up down in z asix.
Xy using dvd steppers duration.
Arduino t slot xy table duration.
V slot nema 23 lead screw driven actuators and simple x y table system duration.
A kinematic model of x y core positioning system is derived which used for accurate position control in x y stage of the cart using low cost stepper motor and low cost controller arduino mega2560.
Banggood dc 4 6v drive stepper motor screw slider on a4988 duration.
Control a stepper motor using an arduino a joystick and the easy driver tutorial duration.
Miniature xy brushless linear motor positioning gantry.
Simple xy table 2 cd drive stepper motors makerblog at arduino co.