If you want to weigh your pet, you’ll quickly discover that getting an animal to face on a weighing balance to order may be very troublesome certainly. If the critter in query is a cat or a small canine you possibly can weigh your self each holding them and never holding them, and compute the distinction. However within the case of a full dimension Bernese mountain canine, the hound is just too large for that. Lateral considering is required, and that’s how [Saren Tasciyan] got here up with the concept of creating a canine mattress that’s additionally a weighing balance. When the mutt settles down, the burden may be learn with ease. The mattress itself is a comparatively easy wood body, with load cells positioned above rubber ft. The load cells in flip discuss to an ESP8266 which has an LCD show to ship the decision. Canine weighed, with out the drama.
This undertaking is in fact a part of the Hackaday 2025 Pet Hacks contest, an area during which any of the cool hacks you’ve made to boost you and your pet’s life collectively can have an airing. In the meantime this isn’t the primary time this specific pooch has had a starring function; he’s sported a reasonably fetching barrel in a earlier publish.
