How Servo Motors Work

It's about how radio control toy servos from the 1970s work. Annoyingly, those pre-computer dumb devices with no feedback output still dominate the low end of mechanical output devices.

Makes me wonder if the generic servos of the described kind are really close enough to the performance a cheap-class servo can have, or if modern advances in monolithic power stage ICs could allow a servo free of sliding movement (no brushes, no wiper potentiometer (maybe a capacitively coupled differential sensing of angle, or the tricks of the cheap digital calipers with their iirc nonius-like scale read through several parallel tracks of non-touching capacitive electrodes?), instead just a clever chip digitally controlling a brushless electric machine using the feedback sensing available to it).

Being able to run an even just very simple digital controller allows things like severely dropping negative feedback gain at a resonance frequency of the larger system. And so much more.