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A project log for Weight coaster

12 LED ws2812 ring that lights up depending on how much drink is in your glass. It uses a load cell to weight the drink.

facelessloserfacelessloser 09/24/2017 at 10:530 Comments

This is the part I hate when it comes to portable projects, How am I going to power them. I could have used AA battery's but I hate waste so It had to be rechargeable. I had recently torn down a pound land power bank and found a nice small lipo charging and boost board inside. I thought I could use this power my project.

The only problem was I would have to have 2 micro usb ports sticking out, One for charging and one for uploading code to the arduino but other then that it worked a treat. This also meant I could have it plugged into a power adaptor without having to worry about over charging the battery

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