Good cheap integrated stepper motors?

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/Stepper-Motors

Well, thanks...but those aren't integrated.  :)

The associated page (go up and down one level on the URL)
has the controllers.

You've only to screw up the connectors on the controller boxes.

A small increase in the number of wires in the total automation scenario

I guess it would depend on what you want integrated - driver or
driver+controller? I'd say you are guaranteed to overpay if you bought
your 1-axis stepper controller integrated into the motor. I don't see how
it would use much less components than, say 3-axis one. Besides you loose
any flexibility should you even require a different interface to the
controller.
Well, ontop of all of the above I would admit I have never come across a
stepper motor with controller in one unit. Sounds like a custom
application to me if it exists. Have you checked the usual
military/industrial surplus places?

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Sort of like this.
http://www.anaheimautomation.com/integratedmotors.htm

I guess they're kind of new, relatively.
I saw them in a show so I thought this was a product trend.

I'm looking for store to buy these things.  And they would perhaps
carry an "existing line".
Not really surplus as availability is usually random.  But I guess
that's better than nothing.

Including a controller does what  ? That kind of negates using a stepper in the
first
place. Mabe if you could tell it to move 10 steps from a usb bus ??

I would imagine that the advantages include miniturization and ease of
use.
Not everyone has stringent requirements of their motors.  Sometimes it
doesn't matter as long as you can achieve a position without too much
"design and forethought".  You don't have to know how it works.  You
just want a black-box.

Here's a pretty good video one.