I must not use this for weed, I must not use this for weed, I must not use this for weed
Why not?
Weed can be sticky depending on the strain/harvest/cure time
TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
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#72Re: TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
#73This is exactly why normal people call us geeks "weird". Keep bringing on the cool stuff!
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not?
The sticky icky would completely destroy my beautiful, black M3 MBP.
Re: TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
#75Very cool. Curious: what is the minimum and maximum weight MacBook's trackpad can reliably measure this way?
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#76What's the weight range it can handle? no mention of it and I don't want to dig through code
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#77Very cool, but I'd still probably just buy a cheap digital scale.
One less thing to carry.
I used to travel with one of these[0].
Re: TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
#78I think this is neat, but only in a Rube Goldberg machine sort of way. The instructions are: 1. Open the scale 2. Rest your finger on the trackpad 3. While mainting finger contact, put your object on the trackpad 4. Try and put as little pressure on the trackpad while still maintaining contact. This is the weight of your object That is, the pressure sensors only work if it detects capacitance, so you need to be touch…
Could a small piece of conductive foam or some cleverly layered tin foil+paper work? So put the object on the shim (which has a known or even negligeable weight)
I once put some aluminum duct tape completely over the touch pad of an old laptop to see what would happen. Turns out it induced enough "eddy currents" to make the mouse move around the screen without me touching it--in a way, visualizing the currents!
I connected the foil to ground using a small strip of the tape to the ground metal of a USB port on the side and it disabled the touch pad.
Re: TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
#79I think this is neat, but only in a Rube Goldberg machine sort of way. The instructions are: 1. Open the scale 2. Rest your finger on the trackpad 3. While mainting finger contact, put your object on the trackpad 4. Try and put as little pressure on the trackpad while still maintaining contact. This is the weight of your object That is, the pressure sensors only work if it detects capacitance, so you need to be touch…
Could you accurately weigh a hot dog?
No, only cool ones.
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#80Could it be used to provide gait analysis for your pet mouse?