Re: Digital Introduction (was: bar code scanners on the XO)

2008-02-18 Thread Morgan Collett
Ivan Krstić wrote: We have code in git that encodes arbitrary (but size-constrained) data as a redundant datamatrix barcode and shows it on the screen, and code that performs image analysis from a camera capture when one XO is pointed at another with such a barcode on the screen to decode the

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-17 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: As you are probably aware, it is possible to read barcodes from the camera, using software analysis. We have code in git that encodes arbitrary (but size-constrained) data as a redundant datamatrix barcode and shows it on the screen,

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-17 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Walter Bender wrote: Has anyone used a USB bar code scanner on the XO? I've used several, both CCD- and laser-based. They register as normal keyboards, so no extra support is required; there's a CCD-based one in my office if you want to play with it. For

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-17 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 17, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Ivan Krstić wrote: For reference, Uruguay is using these: Once more, with the link unmangled: http://www.nationalbarcode.com/datalogic/DataLogic-Firescan-D131.htm -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://radian.org

Digital Introduction (was: bar code scanners on the XO)

2008-02-17 Thread ffm
On Feb 17, 2008 9:36 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: As you are probably aware, it is possible to read barcodes from the camera, using software analysis. We have code in git that encodes arbitrary (but size-constrained) data

Re: Digital Introduction (was: bar code scanners on the XO)

2008-02-17 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 17, 2008, at 7:47 PM, ffm wrote: Any reason it was scrapped? It wasn't scrapped; it's on the backburner because higher-priority issues needed to be dealt with first, and the subsystems that would most benefit from an out-of-band public key exchange (like Telepathy) can't deal with

bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-15 Thread Walter Bender
Has anyone used a USB bar code scanner on the XO? Any recommendations as to a model we could use for an inventory project? -walter -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 16:24 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: Has anyone used a USB bar code scanner on the XO? Any recommendations as to a model we could use for an inventory project? As you are probably aware, it is possible to read barcodes from the camera, using software analysis. See for

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-15 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used a USB bar code scanner on the XO? Any recommendations as to a model we could use for an inventory project? Any barcode scanner which advertises itself as an USB HID device (read, keyboard) would work fine.

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-15 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:35:36PM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: As you are probably aware, it is possible to read barcodes from the camera, using software analysis. See for example http://www.linux.com/feature/126948 . I've tried this, using zebra, but found that it required a specific