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 ...

There are plenty of cheap bike computers on the market, but the high-end meters ... arms are carefully fitted with two pairs of tiny strain gauges. The gauges are wired in a Wheatstone bridge ...

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 ...