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Living Large in 170 sq ft - A Luxury Tiny Home Meets Home Automation
Linear actuators have been used in several ways, in different industries, and for various applications. Today, they are being used to transform a home to a smart home, giving homeowners the ability to control items in the house such as windows, doors, TV cabinets and much more, with the aim to make things simple and easy.
We at Progressive Automations recently received a beautiful project of a towable Tiny Home by New York Based startup, Cubis...
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Living Large in 170 sq ft - A Luxury Tiny Home Meets Home Automation
A Gingerbread Village Brought to Life using Our Actuators
Each year, we receive stories of creative innovations using our actuator products and the year 2018 saw some interesting inventions such as the hidden table lift project in Japanese style, the flight simulator, and the Barbershop success story. Lucky for us it didn’t stop there and 2018 ended on a positive note for our customer in Seattle.
Volunteers from Seattle’s top architecture firms, Gelotte Hommas Drivdahl (GHD) Architecture, and Master ...
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A Gingerbread Village Brought to Life using Our Actuators
Projector with Azimuth Rotation for Free Fall Technologies
One of our talented customers from Free Fall Technologies was nice enough to share his custom project with us, built with the help of our products. Free Fall Technologies is a planetarium education company that specializes in making interesting and educational technical systems for the field. The project is a custom planetarium projector lift that utilizes our FLT-03-2-1 Lifting Column set to raise itself up and down. This is the fourth proje...
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Projector with Azimuth Rotation for Free Fall Technologies
Adding Linear Actuators To Chicken Coops And Snowblower Chutes
As automation trends become increasingly popular, customers are always looking for ways to implement linear actuators into their applications. For instance, in farming locations, chickens stay cooped up inside until you let them out. This requires you to bundle up and head outside to open the door in the colder months. With the use of a linear actuator and a digital timer, you can have this process automated for you!
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Adding Linear Actuators To Chicken Coops And Snowblower Chutes
Success Story: Using Heavy Duty Linear Actuators by Fluid Power South
Fluid Power South is a distributor and seller of automation components. They have been serving Georgia OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), machine users, and resellers for nearly four decades. Their work helps companies of all sizes from growing manufacturers to Fortune 500 businesses generate billions of dollars in revenue each year.
Many Fluid Power South’s customers are in the agricultural industry and they are demanding more automatio...
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Success Story: Using Heavy Duty Linear Actuators by Fluid Power South
Success Story: Flight Simulator with Linear Actuators
With the advancement of the technology used in augmented reality, no longer are simulators limited to training facilities and large companies. Makers all over the world are utilizing motion control components to create interactive and cost-effective simulators right at home, many of whom use Progressive Automations’ linear actuators for their linear motion needs.
Anthony Escalante, a local Progressive Automations’ customer took the meaning of ...
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Success Story: Flight Simulator with Linear Actuators