3D Printer project

I'm working on building a 3D printer. A complete do it yourself on the cheap build. My ideas were simple on how to save money:
1: old 'I.D.E.' 'CD-ROM', 'DVD-ROM', 'CD-RW', 'Floppy', drives (the older ones had larger stepper motors in them) have stepper motors in them and a motor control board already there. And a lot of people throw these old drives out along with the computer they were in, so this could be a free source for hardware ('stepper motors','stepper motor control board','power supply',and maybe the 'computer' still works).
2: I could use a 'multimeter' to find the 'I.D.E.' pins carrying the 'control signal', by tapping into a 'CD-ROM' drives 'I.D.E. cable' while playing a 'audio cd' and selecting 'next track' I could find the pins in use and determine if its 'voltage' would be too much for the computers 'microphone jack' to handle. If voltage range is O.K. then having found all active pins I could wire each pin at 'one at a time' to the 'mirophone jack' and record its 'digital control signal'. Having these signals i could send stepper motor control directions via sound card(multi channel prefered, stereo=two channels), or by the parallel port.
3: Researching other peoples projects to build a 3D printer let me see more cheap solutions:
A gantry with x, y, and z axis using only hardware store drawer slides
Making linear glides from drawer slides
Ideas for 3D printer gantry's
Mini CNC table made from computer parts
Homemade cnc router
Possible source for pre made parts, small modifications needed
20 Piece Solid Carbide Micro drill Bit Grab Bag for drilling the extruder hole
3D printer build ideas and plans
more ideas and shortcuts:
using recycled materials
Parallel port pinouts
Control of Stepping Motors
disk drive stepper-motors
$10ish DIY Variable Temp Soldering Iron Controller for variable temperature extruder hotend on the cheap (I already made this)
brute Force Stepper Driver (PARALLEL port)

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