date-created: '2012-08-13'
date-updated: '2025-11-27'
manifest-author:
    name: Appropedia
    email: admin@appropedia.org
title: 'Open-source lab jack'
description: 'This project is part of a collection on open source optics meant to radically reduce the cost of experimental optical equipment. This 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. Lab jacks cost between about $30 and several hundred. Here you can make a customized lab jack for your applications for a few dollars.'
keywords: 'osat, open source optics, 3d printing, open source hardware, mirror mount'
project-link: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Open-source_lab_jack'
contact:
    name: U
    social:
        platform: Appropedia
        user-handle: U
version: 17
development-stage: D
made: false
image: 'https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/7/73/Open_source_lab_jack.jpg'
license:
    documentation: C
licensor:
    name: U
    affliation: C
    contact: 'https://www.appropedia.org/U'
documentation-home: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Open-source_lab_jack'
documentation-language: e