Measuring pressure

Scale

I use this scale. It is delicate enough to measure 0.1g which makes it good for IAF testing and can support 5kg of weight which is good for handling the weight of the tablet.

• Link to scale on us solid site (archived link)

• Instruction manual

Connecting the scale to a computer

Cable

This specific cable works to connect the serial port on the scale to a USB port on the PC

CableCreation USB to RS232 Adapter with PL2303 Chipset (amazon link)

Programmatically getting the pressure data to a PC

Tablet expert Kuuube, has provided some sample code to read the data from the scale into a PC using Python. See the github project here: https://github.com/Kuuuube/Misc_Scripts/tree/main/scripts_and_programs/us_solid_scale_reade