A load cell measures forces, and this is actually a piezoelectronic load cell that has a little crystal in it.

And what do you know? They immediately overloaded the load cell.

The first peak, obviously, is the limb hitting the load cell.

And so this is just a regular video of the animal just smashing the heck out of this load cell.

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There's that raptorial appendage there's the heel, and it's going to swing around and hit the load cell.

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Color sequential linear sensor

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You can see the little BB in the box is my tilt sensor.

I purchased a 100 pound load cell, thinking, no animal could produce more than 100 pounds at this size of an animal.

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Each of these has a sensor.

Under a different load, it's a different structure. And you can actually exploit that by putting in a very small number of conducting fibers to actually make it a sensor.

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And what I'd like you to do in this shot is keep your eye on this, on the surface of the load cell, as the limb comes flying through.

And actually, just last week I got a 300 pound load cell up and running, and I've clocked these animals generating well over 200 pounds of force.

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