Timeline for Are there accurate meat scales which interface easily with a computer?
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| Feb 27, 2015 at 16:44 | vote | accept | John Aschenbrenner | ||
| Feb 26, 2015 at 18:05 | comment | added | Joe | @JohnAschenbrenner : Ohaus, Dymo, Weightmax and Metler all make USB-connected scales. As they're typically for posage, I would assume they have to be pretty accurate, although the precision may be a function of the scale's maximum (eg, a 100lb max may not have 0.1 gram precision). The local farmer's market has a scale that directly connects to a label printer, but you might also need some inventory tracking. Also see instructables.com/id/… | |
| Feb 26, 2015 at 16:50 | comment | added | John Aschenbrenner | Bottom line is I need to interface with my weight scale in a digital fashion. Currently in order to get the information from the scale into any other system, i.e. invoicing, inventory, I have to manually enter that data into another (OMG) NETWORKED computer!! As far as security goes call me thick here but what is anyone going to do with this information anyway, sell it to my competitors? If I want I can find out what their weights and prices are by asking around a bit. This is not a huge market. I already know their information. I don't need to hack any system for this. | |
| Feb 26, 2015 at 13:43 | comment | added | Joe | @GdD : I work in a place where it's taken me 2 weeks to get machines allowed to connect to the internet when the security folks didn't like that I had a system allowed external people to upload files (and someone uploaded a picture that said 'I've hacked your system'). We've had worse cases where men with guns come in a seized our computers for an investigation. So I'm a little bit more paranoid than most. If network-enabled scales exist, they're going to be used for postage and checkout, and that means financial accounts, and a target. | |
| Feb 26, 2015 at 12:55 | comment | added | GdD | I'm a information security consultant and I'm not even worried about the threat from a network attached scale @Joe! I think he'd be all right on this one, the likelihood is very low. | |
| Feb 26, 2015 at 12:38 | history | answered | Joe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |