Insect bite force sensor forceX v.1

forceX assembly instructions
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(3D-printed v.1)

I. Resources and further reading
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The forceX setup is a reproducible advancement of the design introduced by Herrel et al. (1999) and was published in the following article:

[Rühr, PT & Blanke, A (**2022**): forceX and forceR: a mobile setup and R package to measure and analyze a wide range of animal closing forces](https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13909).

The **‘forceR’** package for closing force analyses (written in the programming environment R (R Core Team, 2021)) is [available at CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/forceR/index.html).





A video of the assembly instructions is available on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/xabIewPMVuU

II. Parts lists for forceX measurement unit
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#### **Table 1:** 3D-printed components. All components should be printed in PLA filament, since this material is less flexible than other common m