{"id":14540,"date":"2016-04-11T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14540"},"modified":"2016-04-11T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:23:06","slug":"track-your-weight-with-this-set-of-scales-that-uses-a-raspberry-pi-and-a-wii-balance-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14540","title":{"rendered":"Track your weight with this set of scales that uses a Raspberry Pi and a Wii Balance Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/github.com\/InitialState\/smart-scale\/wiki\/img\/smart-scale.jpg?resize=560%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jamie Bailey from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.initialstate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Initial State<\/a>\u00a0(a brilliant IoT API website) has been in touch again. This time, he&#8217;s published a really fun tutorial in which you create a set of scales from a Wii Balance Board and hook it up to a Raspberry Pi 3 (or other Pi with a\u00a0Bluetooth dongle). You then use the Initial State website to graph the results and get it to send you an SMS each time you take a reading. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/InitialState\/smart-scale\/wiki\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Bailey from Initial State\u00a0(a brilliant IoT API website) has been in touch again. 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