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Linear actuators have totally revolutionized the way things move around us. This invention of modern technology has allowed automated mechanization to replace manual work in performing routine, motional operations. By transforming pneumatic, hydraulic, or electric energy into linear displacement, actuators are perfect for automating any object. Their universality of these components has found ideas virtually in all aspects of life – from agric...

Automated products are becoming more popular in today’s households. Using our products to create useful devices, such as an automated kitchen spice rack, we aim to show you how linear actuators can help save space, provide innovative designs, and create an efficient home.   Bringing Automation into Your Home Having its roots in the Middle Ages, automation started gathering significant momentum in the 1950s. Back then it was predominantly an in...

At Progressive Automations, we quite often receive news of exciting new projects where clients have used our linear actuators in fun and interesting ways. Below is a guide on how Bruce McArdle, a Progressive Automations customer, designed and built his own automatic secret door, disguised as a bookcase! [cta] [cta-content] Our PA-14 was the core compenent for this project - click to learn more about it! Click Here [cta]   Project Overview &...

In a technological world that continues to advance exponentially, the safety, convenience, and comfort of our homes and workplaces must increase with it as well. Proudly sponsored by Progressive Automations, the AutoWindows team is on a journey to create aesthetically pleasing automatic window systems for all. By combining some of the world's top linear actuators with windows, AutoWindows goal is to have their system installed into homes acros...

Progressive Automations is pleased to share another sponsorship project! One of our innovative customers, John McGurk, has built a mechanism to raise and lower a grill rack above a charcoal or wooden-fired grill pit. The goal was to design a stylish cantilever-like apparatus so that it is easier to cook and manage, while socializing at the same time. This project was inspired by the traditional way of cooking paella over open-wood fire in Vale...

Progressive Automations would like to present to you another impressive project by one of our innovative customers! Trent Peterson, a graduate from California Polytechnic State University, has designed a Stewart Platform robot to be used in one of Cal Poly’s Robotics courses. The purpose of this design is to showcase what is being learned in the theory portion of the class, giving students the ability to apply their knowledge and verify invers...