One of the projects in this C, A & C – Ellentriek session will be about measuring force and good ways how to do that. After a chat with www.effiandamir.net we will probably look at scales and hacking them.

As a small preparation, I had a look for weighing scale hacks:

– Via Hackaday we are led to two projects.
— hacking and monitoring
— hacking scales and storing the info on an sc card

– The following links give ideas – but none of them are worked out in detail:
— http://forums.makezine.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=6052
— From the Arduino forum: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1221027834 & http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1231217442/15