I am wanting to build a training device for rock climbing which will utilise load cells or strain gauges in 3 dimensions to plot force pulling on a climbing hold in each plane against time.
I can see you have a suitable device to connect up to 4 load cells, then usb this data to a computer (PC running Windows). It’s this easy to do using the
Flowbiotics app for phidgetbridge? Also do I need to buy flowbiotics studio too?
I’m not a programmer unfortunately, will this be easy to do without any programming?
Also if I wanted more than 4 inputs at some stage would this be possible by adding another phidget bridge (or several more) to the setup?
Can I use any load cells or would I need to purchase a specific type of load cell or strain guage? I’m considering using load cells taken out of some weighing scales, as these will be operating in the right range of forces, accurate enough for my purpose and are fairly cheap to buy.
Can I use two or more load cells in parallel to each input to give a total load in each plane?
Obviously ideally I would like to use a triple axis load cell, but would this be very expensive and where would I buy one from?
Thanks so much for any help, I’m really keen to get this idea working but have no knowledge of this technical side of it!