on newer HDD's Isn't the motor for the platters a stepper motor? as far as I know they are and always have been? I'm only young so "always" is mabey 10 or so years
I get plenty of dead HDD's for various reasons at work so I was thinking of building some kind of robot out of the stepper motors
my immagination was going wild and I was thinking of a robot spider, 3x stepper motors per leg... total of 24 stepper motors... but I think that would be a little over the top for a starter project.