A traveling-nut linear actuator has a motor that stays attached to one end of the lead screw ( perhaps indirectly through a gear box ), the motor spins the lead screw, and the lead nut is restrained from spinning so it travels up and down the lead screw.
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A traveling-nut linear actuator has a motor that stays attached to one end of the lead screw ( perhaps indirectly through a gear box ), the motor spins the lead screw, and the lead nut is restrained from spinning so it travels up and down the lead screw.
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In May 2016 the Prusa i3 MK2 was released, it is the first printer with automatic geometry skew correction for all three axes and includes a larger build volume, custom stepper motors with integrated lead screws, mesh bed levelling using a non-contact inductance sensor and a rewritten version of the Marlin firmware.
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Maudslay did not invent the change gears all on one lathe ( Jesse Ramsden may have done that in 1775; evidence is scant ), but he did introduce the three-part combination of lead screw, slide rest, and change gears, sparking a great advance in machine tools and in the engineering use of screw threads.
