{"id":42716,"key":"Open-source_lab_jack","title":"Open-source lab jack","latest":{"id":1206553,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T20:22:40Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:open source lab jack.jpg|thumb|Fig 1: Open-source lab jack]]\n\n{{Project data\n| authors = Zhang C, Anzalone NC, Faria RP, User:J.M.Pearce\n| status = Designed, Prototyped, Verified\n| verified-by = MOST\n| location = Michigan, USA\n}}\n\n{{Device data}}\n\n{{MOST}}\n\nThis project is part of a collection on [[open source optics]] meant to radically reduce the cost of experimental optical equipment.\n\nThis is a lab jack, which is a height adjustable platform ideal for mounting optomechanical sub-assemblies, which require height adjustment. Later we can automate it with a stepper motor and an [[Arduino]].\n\nLab jacks cost between about $30 and several hundred. Here you can make a customized lab jack for your applications for a few dollars.\n\nFor full OpenSCAD parametric files and STLs for 3-D printing see http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:28298\n\nBOM and instructions coming soon.\n\nSee Also: Zhang C, Anzalone NC, Faria RP, Pearce JM (2013) [[Open-Source 3D-Printable Optics Equipment]]. ''PLoS ONE'' 8(3): e59840. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059840 [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0059840 open access]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = osat, open source optics, 3d printing, open source hardware, mirror mount\n| sdg = SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure\n| authors = Xinxu, User:J.M.Pearce\n| published = 2012\n| organizations = MOST, MTU\n}}\n\n[[Category:Open source hardware]]\n[[Category:Open source optics]]\n[[Category:OSAT 3D-Printable Designs]]\n[[Category:3d printing]]"}