The tricky bit is sensing the amount of tension on the bandsaw blade. For that task, [Stephen] mounted a load cell in place of the original tensioning spring. A few adapters helped that job ...

We don’t often get our badminton rackets restrung, but if we did, [kuokuo702]’s PicoBETH project would be where we’d turn.

Italy’s Tintoria Stamperia Gorlese (TSG) upgraded existing machinery with sophisticated web tension load cells, increasing ...