measuring pressure

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SCHÜSS
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measuring pressure

Post by SCHÜSS »

Is there any way to measure the pressure your press is putting down? mainly to work out how evenly the pressure is being applied?

Such as a mat or something that you can put in the press that will load digital information up showing which parts of the mat (press) had more pressure.

random Q i know. but any help would be great.
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Post by RoboGeek »

yup. There are many kinds of sensors - many are piezo and generate small voltages when stressed. There are capacitive ones that are like foam pads, which get used a lot for hobby robotics as touch sensors.

In fact, you could even incorporate strain sensors into a ski and measure actual forces applied to it

But the sensors are the easy part. The equipment to interpret the readings will be the hard part. I use a DVM and calibrate the sensor with known weights, and just make a chart
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