One idea might be a game with a printed book where you use the wand to select answers, or make choices in a choose your own adventure.
Or, this might be impractically fancy, but I can *imagine* a printed image the lookes like random static to the eye, but really within that image are known patterns, such that if you drew a figure in the image with the wand, it woukd be possible to know just from the on/off pattern from the wand, if you drew a particular figure or not. So the page would say "Draw a B" and you do it, and the computer says good job, or not. Maybe the pattern wouldn't look random but maybe like alternating checker squares of different regular bar patterns arranged in different directions or something. So the user could draw the indicated shape with a fair degree of variance and the computer still be able to tell that it qualifies, or doesn't. And there is no "B" pattern in the image itself. It would have to be large like 1/2 a sheet or a full sheet maybe. Could maybe make an invisible maze / battleship / minesweeper kind of game too maybe, where you trace an invizible trail through the image and the computer alerts when you run off the track. You could derive the secret sequence that the computer is looking for by just using the wand to record yourself drawing a random trail through pattern. It would take some experimentation with what kind of patterns on the paper provide good usable sequences of bits that can tell one shape from another. On Aug 17, 2017 1:35 PM, "John Gardner" <[email protected]> wrote: Once upon a time PC mags had bar code pgm listings. Getting that going again might be fun... "8) ... On 8/17/17, Roger Mullins <[email protected]> wrote: > Very excited - I picked up a bar code reader on eBay this morning via Buy > It Now while I was waiting for the drop-off line to clear at my kid's > school! I've been wanting one to play around with for a while now but I've > kept getting out-bid. It's just the wand itself, no software or book, so > I'm going to download the scanned manual and follow the discussion thread > here from a few weeks ago about setting it up. > > I'm curious to know - any of you have one set up, using it for anything > practical? I'm looking forward just to the challenge of getting it up and > running, but I'm also brainstorming ways to actually put it to use. I > don't really have anything I need to inventory. :-) > > I'm also awaiting delivery of my replacement M100 (also from eBay) as I > never got the screen/boot-up issue figured out on mine and I was worried I > would end up putting more into diagnostics than it would cost to just pick > up a 'new' machine. Plus it's always good to have an in-house supply of > parts. It should be here by the weekend. >
