havent touched electronics in forever (ended up doing consumer product rnd (mostly material science) for 8 years and wanted to get back to this

im sharing something iv been working on and im sure its nothing compared to the complexity of things people make in this sub

there was a concern in my family business -- counting fertilizer bags going into a truck

essentially bags are weighed before loading so i managed to pull the signal out of the RS232 port of the weighing machine and using a micro controller count the bags and upload it onto the cloud

i was able to add additional features as well (check if the bag is over weighed and sound a siren etc)

right now its module based but it works -- hoping version 2 will have next to no modules and 100 percent components

the final goal is to bring about IOT into the whole factory