I have been wanting to do a project like this for a long time.
Now with great cad tools and 3D printing a project like this happens within 4 days.
It uses a load cell that I borrowed out of my kitchen scale for the weighing.
Conveniently the excitation voltage for it is 3.3 V which is available directly of the Uno.
I feed the signal into a MCP 3424 4 channel 18 bit A to D to read the weight.
When the button is pushed to do a feed the pwm to the continuous rotation Parallax servo that drives the screw is changed so that it begins rotation and feeds product.
When the weight that I set in the code is reached it sets the pwm back to stop value and sets the start bit low.
This is the basics of a system, so from here screens and input devices can be added to make it complete.
I am publishing it as a simple working project for a beginner to try and then experiment with adding more features to it.
It needs a schematic, I know and will work on adding it.
Here's the link to the cad files:https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4875392
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