--- title: Add Sensors To Everything! | daily.dev description: A short opinion piece advocating for adding sensors liberally to hardware systems, using 3D printer hot ends as a primary example. A strain gauge measuring... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/add-sensors-to-everything--6i0zurtb8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Add Sensors To Everything! | daily.dev og:description: A short opinion piece advocating for adding sensors liberally to hardware systems, using 3D printer hot ends as a primary example. A strain gauge measuring... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/add-sensors-to-everything--6i0zurtb8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6I0ZuRTB8.png og:image:alt: Add Sensors To Everything! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Add Sensors To Everything! **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A short opinion piece advocating for adding sensors liberally to hardware systems, using 3D printer hot ends as a primary example. A strain gauge measuring filament pressure can calibrate pressure advance more accurately than guesstimates, and the same sensor can serve multiple purposes: auto bed leveling, clog detection, and diagnosing other failure modes. The broader argument is that sensors provide unexpected insights beyond their primary purpose, and the more you measure, the more you can discover about a system's behavior. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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