Add Sensors to Everything!
No comments by: Elliot Williams July 25, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy “You can’t control what you can’t measure” goes the old chestnut. But that’s a little bit negative, in my opinion. Instead, think of the benefits of sprinkling sensors around everywhere: you gain insight where you simply didn’t have it beforehand.
- ▪No comments by: Elliot Williams July 25, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy “You can’t control what you can’t measure” goes the old chestnut.
- ▪But that’s a little bit negative, in my opinion.
- ▪Instead, think of the benefits of sprinkling sensors around everywhere: you gain insight where you simply didn’t have it beforehand.
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Add Sensors To Everything! No comments by: Elliot Williams July 25, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy “You can’t control what you can’t measure” goes the old chestnut. But that’s a little bit negative, in my opinion. Instead, think of the benefits of sprinkling sensors around everywhere: you gain insight where you simply didn’t have it beforehand. We were thinking about this in the context of the recent video on pressure advance in 3D printers. Essentially, the unmelted filament acts as a springy piston, and that springiness means that the pressure built up in the melted plastic lags the feedrate of new filament. We usually calibrate this out with a guesstimate constant, but it can be different for every different filament.
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