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Re: Barcode reader (Was: RE: legOS)
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 2 Dec 1998 03:45:22 GMT
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Heinz Czychun <hgczyc@reachSAYNOTOSPAM.net>
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At 7:08 PM 12/1/98, stephen p spackman wrote:
Iain M Barker wrote:

It was also
interesting to see the RCX used for business use (the barcode reader
battery tester on MS club site - search for 'scanner').

I just got LEGO's shop at home and found package #8479 Barcode Multi-Set,
(it's marked hard to find) that includes "Code Pilot" to scan bar codes. Is
this what Iain meant?

Or Stephen are you interested in rolling your own as an exercise ?


Not quite the same thing, but has anyone tried to make a Lego barcode reader
using the light sensor? If so, how well did it work (or not)?

The trick is to take advantage of having more than two colours to make
it self-synchronising (said he from past experience, not having tried it
on the RCX yet).

stephen



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  Re: Barcode reader (Was: RE: legOS)
 
(...) Nah, the code pilot is something else. It's a largely lame earlier programmable brick that uses barcodes as the programming medium. But it's not programmable enough to use the barcodes for anything else, I think. It does have one interesting (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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