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[solved] Saw this random video, curious what kind of machine it is of (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

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@sag@lemm.ee shared a link to this great site earlier and I've been watching random videos on it, and this came up.

It's of no importance, just curiosity about both what the machine is, and will anyone on here recognise it (could be pretty generic for its field, my guess might be medical/imaging? or could be something unique, I have no idea!)

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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So the cables on the top and bottom, as well as the shape of the thing that the wires plug into suggest some sort of force sensitive resistor. So whatever this thing is doing, it's measuring how much force whatever is in between those 2 rubber domes is producing. Or like -- how hard the sample is.

[–] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Spot on, it’s a bone density measuring device.