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by criddell 1109 days ago
The Nintendo Wii balance board is the only good scale you can get and it isn't expensive. A balance board, Wii, and small TV is probably around $500.
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gsliepen 1109 days ago
You don't even need the Wii itself! You can connect to the balance board via Bluetooth, and there are several libraries out there that can read out its data (and that of the Wiimotes as well).
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criddell 1109 days ago
Do they give you the same feedback about shifting your weight so that you get an acceptably small deviation between the four sensors?
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gsliepen 1109 days ago
Yes, you get all the data. Sometimes you can see even more than what the Wii shows you. For example, with the Wiimotes, it actually shows you the position and brightness of the top 3 or 4 infrared light sources in its field of view (from that it can derive the position of the "sensor" bar).
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criddell 1109 days ago
If you have a link, it would be much appreciated. When I looked I didn’t see anything that came close to the functionality that the Balance Board had when attached to the Wii. It’s nice that the raw data is available, but unless it’s presented in a way that’s useful, it’s not that interesting.

The only project I found was FitScales and it has been dead for a long time now because Android Bluetooth changes made it incompatible with newer devices.

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