Repurpose. A Nintendo Wii balance board

[bigburtchino]

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?

[HipoGear]

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

[Sirscrapalot]

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.

[mikeinreco]

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

[Sirscrapalot]

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



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