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mikpanko | 7 months ago

Very cool. Curious: what is the minimum and maximum weight MacBook's trackpad can reliably measure this way?

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alden5|7 months ago

It goes in gram increments and my laptop was able to read 7300g pressing as hard as i could, which I was surprised it would be designed to read that high, might go up to 10kg but I don't want to crack my trackpad lol. The actual measurements though are extremely unreliable. I've found it can't reliably measure anything, measuring a roll of tape gave me measurements from 70g to 700g, it always settled on a number but was different every time. Maybe the underlying data is more accurate but this API is definitely just designed for outputting the force of a finger. M1 MBP for reference

cAtte_|7 months ago

> pressing as hard as i could

you are a brave one