To help solve this problem and bridge the gap between the experience ... eventually a bi-directional load cell was placed inside the steering mechanism which solved this problem.

Any microcontroller’s GPIO pins should work and numerous libraries have been written making it easy to read data from the HX711. Load cells use a four wire wheatstone bridge to connect to the HX711.

The SparkFun OpenScale will enable you to turn a load cell or four load sensors in a Wheatstone bridge configuration into the DIY weigh scale for your application. The OpenScale was designed for ...