The only issue i see with a servo is they cannot rotate 360 degrees.

Thank you all. This was very helpful. I figured the home switch was a mandatory. The apsolute postion encoder sounds amazing, im just wondering how i would use this with a pi. Research ahead of me i see.

Im just wondering if someone could help we with a question about the pi and stepper motor control? I was hoping there is a way to do point to point stepper control without having to home it everytime you power it on or after each move? I want it to control a turn table for my model RR. I would like ...