This video explores the fascinating world of strain gauges, these clever little devices that combine elements of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and materials science to give us a way ...

Finally, to solve his pet peeve of setting up and using the stock Z-probe, [Bruno] turned the entire print bed into a strain-gauge sensor. This took some doing, which the blog post details nicely ...

With the help of a wonderfully complex array of strain gauges and a Raspberry Pi, he found that the story isn’t so simple. Each strain gauge lives in a 3D printed bracket that spaces the sensors ...