[help]BarCode Scanner

So here's the deal. My sister has presented a task for me to make a easier way of managing her upcoming ASB dance (for high school).

So they want a way to abandon paperwork and basically use student ID cards to log when the student check in and out of the dance. Thing is I dont know how to read the student barcode.

So basically can you help me out with this.

Thanks.

I suggest VB.net & The Cat (if they don't already have a barcode scanner)

All barcode scanners really do is read the barcode and convert them to keystrokes and then takes those keystokes "hhfygrtsjdhasl28432894" and converts them to numbers '223895" those numbers are then used for whatever.

If you get your hands on a CAT (free at radioshack {used to be, don't know if they still have them} then all you need to do is create some simple logic to handle how the cards are read.

We can help you, let me know and I will move it, if it has to be C++ , then I am sure these guys can help you as well.

Also, if they are using magnetic strip cards, You can get a really cool phone component that allows you to scan credit cards, it uses the audio input of the device, it is 100% free and when you sign up for Square on your android and/or their main site (free) they send it to you to accept credit cards from your android.

Concept is the same though, write a application that takes advantage of this magnetic card strip reader.

Either way, seriously this is the most basic logic you can do in development, similar to that of a POS, doesn't get much easier.

aww dude thank you so much i was needing the same thing

This looks awesome : A C++ Barcode Library - CodeProject

if you do the Android barcode reader, which sounds nice, you can use a server to sync the students on multiple devices.

BTW: this seems rather difficult so I can try to help you out with this, if you let us know what resources you have at your disposal. Because the first thing you need is a barcode scanner, and also you should know rather this is a barcode or a magnetic strip, cuz those are different things.

Here's an SDK for barcode on iphone & android http://shopsavvy.mobi/sdk/

And here's the square thing for i-devices and android. https://squareup.com/

I would reccommend using it since it's free, but the quicker you can get some kind of scanner the better. Idk about if you can use square for other things besides credit cards either, you might have to look into it.
https://github.com/square/android-api

I have one pm me im selling it cool gui and everything 10k nx.

@Why06 I can make one for the Android aswell. pm me if u want to ill start now Just incase u want it..
Peace.

Originally Posted by NexonShock

I have one pm me im selling it cool gui and everything 10k nx.

@Why06 I can make one for the Android aswell. pm me if u want to ill start now Just incase u want it..
Peace.

sif, no one is going to buy it for NX cash.

Android Megnetic Card Reader is free from here.
Https://squareup.com/
Sign up and they will send you a free card reader.
(just after you sign up, click "get your free reader" at the top of your account.

No obligations BTW, I got myself 2 one for me and one for my partner, we use it with the Android App and services, quick and easy, rates are better then google checkout

Edit: To run some tests, I went ahaead and purchased a Gigaware USB to Stereo headphone converter, this does 2 things, it A. gives me a long wire to attach the device to and B. gives me a similar jack to that of the android (Mic and Headphone combo) computers have 2 separate jacks.

if you do go this route then.

Originally Posted by Sam Wen, Square Engineer

The magnetic stripe on a credit card is a set of magnetic dipoles that are arranged and spaced in a specific manner. The arrangement (N-S or S-N) provides an alternating magnetic field that produces a current when someone swipes a card (the Hall Effect). The spacing provides the encoding (called F2F encoding). The signal is then sent through the microphone-input channel of a smart phone, where we process the card.

Which may make developing with it a little more difficult.

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