As an engineer in R&D, I've always known if I needed a cheap but amazing part, to look at automotive replacements from third parties for parts to build an MVP with.
Those rear hatch motors are amazing and most have indexing.
Not all college students are the same, I used office hours to get help building things, designing things, and to better understand the materials, especially when I got into silicon fabrication and electromagnetics, it was fascinating, learning exactly, in detail, how a PC works at the atomic level.
I'm one of the engineers contracted to build new hardware and software controllers for one of the major suppliers of these tank systems. There are intercoms now, better temp control, better lighting abilities, and much more. Though, we still need a iOS and Android app.
Those rear hatch motors are amazing and most have indexing.