Individual Project | 01 Scale Reading

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In this individual project we implemented our newly learned coding and electrical circuit knowledge. Our task was to take scale readings and give feedback to the person using the scale. The feedback told when there was too much, not enough, and the correct amount of weight. I choose to give feedback through three lights. 

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For the project we started by calibrating our scale to find the weight with the corresponding voltage output. From here we converted the weight measurements we had to the voltage reading. On my circuit board I connected the three lights along with three resistors. These components were the connected to an Arduino. Using the Arduino program on the computer I was able to write the corresponding code to take input from the scale and output it through the lights. I used the previously calculated voltage output in my code so the correct light would be turned on at different weights. 

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