Repurpose. A Nintendo Wii balance board

Anyone use a Wii balance board as a portable scale? I recently found one in the 100 to 200 cubic yards of commercial waste we process each week. Research has me thinking these can fairly easaly be repurposed as a portable scale. They are well built, use AA batteries, bluetooh to transfer data, have four load cells giving accurate ability of weighing up to 300 pounds. There is a free smart phone app that has been used for weighing people. Also found a few diy hacks that connect the balance board to pc's. Going to play with this idea and was just wondering what the SMF scrappers think?

Would love to hear how it works out for you. You would likely need to test it intensely for accuracy.

When you posted this Burt I totally read the title wrong...Been trying to figure out why someone would try an weigh something on a Nintendo Wii MOTHERboard...lol.

I really should read slower at times.

An very interesting way to reuse something for sure.

Sirscrapalot - Reading Comprehension is your friend...even more so if your like me an tend to read fast...lol.

Could be a fun project but you can get a portable digital scale that easily weighs 350lb on Ebay for less than $50.........For me the time that it would take to re-purpose the wii parts just would not be worth it

I ever get/come across a wii balance..I'm going to give it a whirl.

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