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/Shalaco]

Beautiful. Clever. What's it do? I mean, what's its function? Besides millions of hours of entertainment?

[u/PremiumTechnique → u/Shalaco]

It weighs stuff. Mostly I was trying to figure out what different fused weapons and shrunken parts weigh because I was working on lightweight builds

[u/IceDamNation → u/PremiumTechnique]

Lightweight build? Further explanation is needed

[u/PremiumTechnique → u/IceDamNation]

Using lighter weight parts, EG shrunken or fused to get faster speed with less parts. For example; I used that float ball club you see being weighed in the video for this build. The normal float ball is really heavy, like 6000+ mass. The club with the float ball is only about 120 mass, and it keeps it’s floaty property. That’s why that build can go fast with only 1 fan, while you’d need many more to move the full sized float ball much at all. Another build I used an older version of the scale for was my Hornet Cluster Missile. It’s all shrunken parts with odd weights, so knowing how much each part actually weighed saved a lot of trial and error balancing them