but it required building a composite spacer ring for the glass print bed to mount twelve strain gauges that are read by the venerable HX711 amplifier and an Arduino, which sends a signal to Marlin ...

An HX711 module takes care of managing the whole thing. Rounding out the build is a CPU, a battery charger, and an OLED display. By itself, the output of the device is raw counts, but thanks to ...