These days, rotators are more often found on communication antennas like ham radio beams ... a HyGain AR-303 rotator and decided to build an Arduino-based controller for it.

When I moved to Florida, I gave the antenna and mast to a friend who is a ham radio aficionado. The rotator and control box are still working well, with a much larger antenna.

If you are a hacker, you might consider ham radio operators as innovative ... hams like [jmharvey] will build an antenna analyzer from a DDS module and an Arduino instead of dropping a few ...