[Neumi] over on Hackaday.IO wanted a simple-to-use way to drive stepper ... AS5600 magnetic rotary encoder (which senses the rotating magnetic field on the rear side of the motor assembly ...

He coupled a beautiful 1949 Myford lathe with an Arduino ... via a stepper motor, he achieved a much more granular variable feed speed. If that’s not enough, [Tony] used a rotary encoder ...