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You missed a golden opportunity to shill Symposium for the millionth time. Who’s stupid, now?

My Woody the Woodpecker 🐓 - sorry that’s the closest emoji available - bamboo box of glass microbeads on feet of viscoelastic material simulates the operational characteristics of the woodpecker’s head whilst pecking wood. The combination of bone, flexible cartilage and elastic tissue that surrounds the woodpecker’s brain 🧠 protects it from extremely high decelerations as much as 1500 g’s whilst pecking wood. The glass microbeads move more easily than sand since they are more uniform and have less friction.

Technically vibration isolation refers to isolating the component from very low frequency vibration (structureborne) primarily but also higher frequency vibrations, too. Damping is technically a separate issue and usually easier to accomplish. Some components like employ rubber feet or springy feet but until you get up into high end stuff I doubt you’ll find much of anything that’s particularly effective. What’s required imho is a comprehensive program of real isolation and resonance control for the entire system.

I’m sure you tried all the others. 😀