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1 School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. 2 School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, USA. In this research work, it has been designed ...

This part was created because there were no existing Fritzing parts for a linear actuator available online. Feel free to use it in your projects and provide feedback or improvements.

1 School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. 2 School of Future Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China. 3 Nanjing ...