[IDEA] weight scale using pressure sensor on touchscreen

[MadlyAlive]

If it'll weigh my suitcase on a return trip home, I'd be game for donating to the project.

[MadlyAlive]

Originally Posted by phelony

Well lets run a scenario here....
I am going to my potpourri guy.... (A gentleman of my Noble Blood would never be involved in such buffoonery as the buying or selling of illicit drugs.... can you not tell my innocence from my user name)
I give my smelly flower vendor $20 which should entitle me to 1.7-1.8 grams of this delectable smelling cured herbal awesomeness.....
He hands me a bag and I go about my merry way to make my house smell good.
Now the theory is he pre weighed it before selling it to me...
Reality is however he is French and therefore cannot be trusted...
Upon arrival to my conveyance I whip out my phone and I notice that he gave me 1.5 Grams (Freaking cheese eating surrender monkey...)
I walk back to his abode and demand another lil chunk of potpourri in liu of an *** whoopin...
Now should I get pulled over on the way home with a scale I would serve time for Intent to deliver by posessing a scale... (Cops just do not understand the need to way potpourri) however with my phone I can weigh on the spot without paraphenalia and without going home to weigh it and having to waste gas driving all the way acrossed town....

Savvy?

LOL. Does everyone from Oregon buy potpourri?

[ScrapMaker]

Originally Posted by phelony

Well lets run a scenario here....
I am going to my potpourri guy.... (A gentleman of my Noble Blood would never be involved in such buffoonery as the buying or selling of illicit drugs.... can you not tell my innocence from my user name)
I give my smelly flower vendor $20 which should entitle me to 1.7-1.8 grams of this delectable smelling cured herbal awesomeness.....
He hands me a bag and I go about my merry way to make my house smell good.
Now the theory is he pre weighed it before selling it to me...
Reality is however he is French and therefore cannot be trusted...
Upon arrival to my conveyance I whip out my phone and I notice that he gave me 1.5 Grams (Freaking cheese eating surrender monkey...)
I walk back to his abode and demand another lil chunk of potpourri in liu of an *** whoopin...
Now should I get pulled over on the way home with a scale I would serve time for Intent to deliver by posessing a scale... (Cops just do not understand the need to way potpourri) however with my phone I can weigh on the spot without paraphenalia and without going home to weigh it and having to waste gas driving all the way acrossed town....

Savvy?

Morale of the story: Don't have a Frenchman as a potpourri dealer

[shakuyi]

Originally Posted by MadlyAlive

If it'll weigh my suitcase on a return trip home, I'd be game for donating to the project.

dude its bad enough we want to put sticky stuff and powdery potpourri but heavy big objects? cmon man get with the times you gotta pack light remember 1/2 the stuff u bring on vacation can be purchased there.

[phelony]

Originally Posted by MadlyAlive

LOL. Does everyone from Oregon buy potpourri?

Pretty Freaking Much

[[sammich]]

Originally Posted by MadlyAlive

LOL. Does everyone from Oregon buy potpourri?

Originally Posted by phelony

Pretty Freaking Much

OMFG! I'm adding that to my sig!

[Biker1]

Someone will have to do Physics calculations to see how much weight a Diamond can withstand before it cracks. Maybe a pound or two as I am a baker and have to weigh flour for my Christmas fruit cakes.

[phelony]

Originally Posted by saumaun

OMFG! I'm adding that to my sig!

Lol dude that rocks

[beefcakeb0]

no luck bump

[ScrapMaker]

Originally Posted by beefcakeb0

no luck bump

For this scale to be "accurate," you would have to be weighing things in the pounds, not ounces. It takes quite a bit of pressure to push the screen.

You would most likely need some sort of balancing setup, where you had a set weight on one side, and it had a peg of some kind that pushed on the screen. The more weight you put on the other side of the balancer, the less pressure the screen would see... This wouldn't work very well either, but just putting stuff directly on the screen would never work.

I did just think of another way to do it, while I was typing this.

The way a resistive touchscreen works, allows it to see how much surface area is making contact. So if you built some sort of tray, that was SLIGHTLY curved in the middle, so that when you pushed harder, it made more contact with the screen, with an outward motion, (think--soap dish, or boat bottom,) then theoretically, you'd have a way to see more pressure/weight.

Either way, it's totally impractical and a waste of anyone's time to make it, since if you have this tray device, you might as well just have a scale.

If you are looking for a better way to measure dope, while being under the radar, then it seems that your best bet would be to conceal a scale better... why not take a bigger phone like a 6600, or 6700, and rip out all the internals, and put a scale inside, and then make the screen the scale surface... no one would ever notice you had a scale. Plus, the recessed screen would allow for your stuff to not fall of as easily.

Or you could do it with a Touch. The scales I have seen are very small, and could easily be stuffed inside a Touch chassis. No one would ever pick up a Touch, and say, "Hey, I bet that's really a scale..."

other than doing something like this, you are out of practical/executable ideas...