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Smart fridge scales that track how much milk is left
Battery-powered fridge scales that report the milk's weight to Home Assistant over BLE, with firmware and dashboard vibe-coded using Claude Code.
Credits
- Reddit poster Nice-Ear7560 Source ↗
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The full story
Tired of running out of milk, the poster built smart scales for the fridge and, with Claude Code, vibe-coded the firmware for the controllers and a Home Assistant dashboard. The scales sleep most of the time and broadcast the current weight over BLE every two hours, which they hope will make the battery last.
They were looking for a way to order milk automatically, but found no major London supermarket offering an API, and wanted flatter load cells for similar scales for bread and eggs.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built smart fridge scales so I stop running out of milk, now I want to automate the actual orderReddit poster: Nice-Ear7560Posted
The maker's post on r/homeassistant.
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