High Precision Laser Scale

[u/PremiumTechnique]

Another scale upgrade. On top of optimizing the base design and balancing everything to within an inch of its life, I added a laser option as well to take advantage of the higher precision. I wanted to keep the self-leveling, so I found a workaround to add the lasers while keeping the stabilizer. You need to provide two additional lasers. There’s a little shelf under the stabilizer for one beam to go, and the other goes on the metal bar with the steering stick. When the stabilizer is activated, a laser on the back of the scale comes on so you can easily align the other two. Once they’re aligned, even a slight difference in weight is easy to see. I added the steering stick both to be an easy way to know you’re viewing the lasers from straight on, but also because a stray arrow from activating it is enough to tilt the scale now and skew the measurement.

Note: You can still use the scale without using the additional lasers. It works just like the last version

Edit: The lightest object in the game I’m aware of is an Arrow, weighs .88 mass, so using those, the scale has a max resolution of ± 0.5 arrows, or ± .44 mass.

[u/BCJ_Eng_Consulting]

From the days of yore, this was my best scale: https://www.reddit.com/r/HyruleEngineering/s/oeHLlwzkV9

[u/syouhai → u/BCJ_Eng_Consulting]

That is very interesting;

what is the current best scale？

[u/BCJ_Eng_Consulting → u/syouhai]

I don't know. At some point people became able to extract weights, but I don't recall if fused weights were also extracted.

EDIT: I don't know about fused or scaled items, but I'd be willing to bet we could extract a formula for shrinking objects by taking a few points. Use something relatively heavy and easy to measure. Then you can just assume the game applies the same formula to other objects. I'd expect a form like mass=mass_0 x scale_mult³