The driller was an experiment in stepper motor control. Using the Little Step-U being commanded from a stamp the driller will accurately drill all the holes in a circuit board.
   

The stamp is nothing but a multiplexor it receives one string of numbers from the PC and sends part of it to each stepper board and off they go to the position requested.

   
The system has no feedback beyond limit switches so if things go wrong it doesn't know. but using threaded nylon bar as ball screw cheap replacements does work well.