Barcode Scanner/Keypad Driver for Mobile Terminal

[wraggster]

New release from Art:


Hi Guys,
Here is a program that will run on any of the pictured mobile data terminals
which provides for use of the barcode scanner and keypad for use with the
PSP.

This is the most portable barcode scanner solution you'll find.

I had to find a compiler and write this myself since I found nothing on the
net that did both. Data is output at 9600 baud 8,N,1.

School kiddies forget about it... you can expect to pay a couple of thousand
dollars for one of these units, but I have seen one on eBay for $800.
You'd still need a serious use for one to justify that price, as I have.

The unit connects via the serial port at the PSP headphone connector,
just as my (or Deniska's) GPS does. I thought I'd upload it because you
won't ever find one anywhere else.
Cheers, Art.

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[Buddy4point0]

crazy!

[Chameleon]

crazy!

[bm4n]

This would be awesome for a project I was thinking of a while ago...A movie database (of movies you own) that you could update by scanning the boxes...You could then search through by actor, rating, title, director, etc. as I think most of that data is stored in the bar code (or not and this idea sucks). I gave up when I couldn't find good drivers for my free cat:scan I found in our basement...heh.

[aries2k4]

Lol, 1001 uses for the psp.
Always good to see people coming up with new uses for the psp.

[jhontikis]

If it only used the IR and the camera of the PSP to do its work... hehe.

[drEDN4wt]

i'll have to "borrow" one from work, i use something almost identical.

Btw the ones i use are wireless, either 802.11b of g (i'm not sure) , wouldn't that be a better solution?

[Art]

I think most of that data is stored in the bar code
THe barcode data rarely has anything to do with the item unfortunately.
The barcode is a coded form of the printed text or numbers you see on the bottom,
and that number is checked against a stock file
whenever an item is scanned.
If a match is found, the record is extracted from the stock file, if not, then the red light flashes ;)

The record in the stock file contains the barcode
number of course, and then the description, cost an dsell prices, carton quantities, etc.

This means that anytime a checkout operator scans a product, even at a small store that
doesn't seem to have many products, a computer searches through thousands of products
trying to find a match for the barcode you scanned.

The pckage I relesed hs no program for the PSP. It's just program for the terminal which was
written for use as a PSP driver.
Art.