[craftinator]

Yeah, my brain is kinda tuned to those long distances. I also kind of harp on people who say they need really high precision systems, so use servos and spend bookoo bucks on slop-reductive hardware.

Even a cheap encoder, when decoupled from the motor, and directly coupled to the axis it measures, will give better axial positioning than a servo. It boggles my mind why people seem to ignore this in favor of a motor that knows where it is in space, but doesn't know where the axis it is driving is in space.