Dear All,
First of all I would like to thank you for reading my post.
I want to build a digital scale, using a load cell ( up to 100 kgr), height 1,2,3... times a day
and sent the results with a sms txt msg. The whole system to work on AAA batteries.
On top of that I want to be able to connect various sensors as well.
My concern is, as being new to arduino, the power consumption, which parts to use, and if there
is an open source code for something similar.
Regards
AS to sms text messaging, I bought the Adafruit CC3300 module, downloaded the SMTPClient library and the email library, got an account with the email server SMTP2Go (free for modest usage), and I now am sending home monitoring traffic to my phone. Just wade through the library examples, and you can put the messaging capability in an evening or two.
you have to for sure shutdown the not needed ATmega peripherals for low energy operation and sleep most of the time only to wake up for job, as a newbie its all hell lot of job.