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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@reach.netAVOIDSPAM>
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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 (...) (28 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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