Anyone got a spare barcode scanner for cheap?
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Hey guys, I am looking for a (used) barcode scanner to use in a pet-project of mine. I have 20 EUR (plus 5 EUR handling/shipping), but cannot find a scanner for that amount. The project is highly experimental, so I don't want to shell out big bucks. I just need it for verification. Please note: I need a "keyboard passthrough" type scanner, i.e. a scanner which sends keyboard scancodes via USB HMI or PS/2. I don't care for anything else. I am pretty sure that some CPian has a spare scanner. Any suggestions or offers? Thanks in advance...
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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Hey guys, I am looking for a (used) barcode scanner to use in a pet-project of mine. I have 20 EUR (plus 5 EUR handling/shipping), but cannot find a scanner for that amount. The project is highly experimental, so I don't want to shell out big bucks. I just need it for verification. Please note: I need a "keyboard passthrough" type scanner, i.e. a scanner which sends keyboard scancodes via USB HMI or PS/2. I don't care for anything else. I am pretty sure that some CPian has a spare scanner. Any suggestions or offers? Thanks in advance...
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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Hey guys, I am looking for a (used) barcode scanner to use in a pet-project of mine. I have 20 EUR (plus 5 EUR handling/shipping), but cannot find a scanner for that amount. The project is highly experimental, so I don't want to shell out big bucks. I just need it for verification. Please note: I need a "keyboard passthrough" type scanner, i.e. a scanner which sends keyboard scancodes via USB HMI or PS/2. I don't care for anything else. I am pretty sure that some CPian has a spare scanner. Any suggestions or offers? Thanks in advance...
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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What about in antartica? lol
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What about in antartica? lol
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
What about in antartica?
Antarctica would also be OK. Maybe one could ask the guys at von Neumeyer station[^]? Since they're German, as the OP and the commenter you responded to.
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Why not just type in the barcode then? That would do to get started and we used to do that for developing test systems. Elaine :rose:
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Thanks for the advice. One reason was, that I wasn't sure if the barcodes I print would be big enough for a scanner. The second reason was a misconception about how the keyboard-scanners work. Obviously enough, I had never programmed for a barcode-scanner before, so I did not know that the scanners transmit a freely configurable "end-sign", which superceded all my "clever coding" for the changed-event of the textbox... you get the drift, right? ;) I ordered a barcode scanner. The cheapest one, however. And even that is too expensive (19,99 + VAT + 10,00 s&h, sent from Hong-Kong. However, I can already track the package via FedEx, so I hope I have not been scammed). Thanks all.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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Hey guys, I am looking for a (used) barcode scanner to use in a pet-project of mine. I have 20 EUR (plus 5 EUR handling/shipping), but cannot find a scanner for that amount. The project is highly experimental, so I don't want to shell out big bucks. I just need it for verification. Please note: I need a "keyboard passthrough" type scanner, i.e. a scanner which sends keyboard scancodes via USB HMI or PS/2. I don't care for anything else. I am pretty sure that some CPian has a spare scanner. Any suggestions or offers? Thanks in advance...
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
I needed a barcode scanner for a similar situation. You can goto eBay and get a modified usb CueCat scanner pretty cheap. By nature, they only scanned their own proprietary barcodes. People have modified them via software or hardware to read other standard barcodes. I bought the hardware modified version. It was a little bit of a pain to use because it was a swipe type reader, but it did the job for cheap money.