hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

I decoded using an Intermec CK61 Mobile Computer, using a piece of software I wrote using .Net Compact Framework 3.5 and the Intermec Developers Kit.

It says “hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″ and I decoded it using my Symbol MC3000 barcode scanner running Windows CE, since my job involves developing an application for them. Not very creative, but it was already on when I read the post!

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

decoded using a beetle2 (computer used in supermarket here in france) and a bluetooth scanner with the debug mode of the program “mona”.

It says “hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″, I just copied and pasted what the other posters said. (Creative enough?)

Hackaday.com – hacking since 2004. I cleverly decoded it by reading the first post in the comments section.

What? Isn’t finding the solution of least resistance, not necessarily playing by the rules, the essence of hacking?

“hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″

printed to our laserjet 4, then the “bardimm” module picked up on the barcode and added it to the document management system.

I suppose I could have just used one of the symbol barcode scanners though…

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

Hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

asked my electronic comunication teacher from the university i attend, cheap, accurate and a intriguing subject for the EC class today.

It says “hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″, I just copied and pasted the other poster who executed this idea before I did.

I copy and pasted mikes. one good plagiarizing deserves another

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004
decoded using http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx

It says “hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″. I wrote out the widths of the bars and gaps in binary, which were then processed using the following whitespace program:

This program converts the cuneiform into a QR code which I had made into a crop circle. I then waited for Google Earth to be updated to include my crop circle. Finally I forced third world world children to manually decode them QR code image at gunpoint.

Simple.

I dug around in my garage for a few minutes and found an old ‘cuecat’ printed out the image and slid the cuecat across it till I got a good read, which took a while. I hunted around in old backup CD’s till I found one with a copy of ‘Skin the Cat’ cuecat decoder, and plugged the data into that. It came out garbled. No points for me.

K.

Errr… CODE128 not CODE123

I read the image into MATLAB converted it into a one dimensional vector, wrote a simple bar-space length decoder, gave up because I didn’t want to make a huge look up table to convert the bar and space lengths into ascii, and then used the comments to decode it the rest of the way.

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

used a unitech plastic usb wand barcode reader

The barcode says “hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″.

-In order to decode it, I used an old and easy-to-learn chinese technique. The chinese call it “复制粘贴” (Just use google’s tranlator, if you don’t know how to read it).
It requires someone else who has been fronted with the same problem.
Now you just have to hope the he already solved the problem and posted his solution to the internet. Because it’s never a good way to trust the word of only one anonymous guy, you have to find a way to verify the solution.
The smart chinese found a way for this step, too:
“等着看别人是如何解决这个问题” (you know, …google translator)

After you completed this step you’ll have easily gained a verified solution for your problem.
In this case a translated barcode.

P.S. This technique applies for nearly every problem you could face. Try it out! :)

It says
hackaday.com – hacking since 2004
Honeywell hand held scanner for scanning apple parts at work

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

used my recently hacked dolphin 7400 barcode scanner!

proof – http://themunden.com/scanner.JPG

They were charging $200 for a stupid “homebase” charger. I noticed the battery inside was marked as 3.7v so I figured that was close enough to 5v USB and I spliced it open and it charged back up just fine.

Pen and paper, with a lot of bits guessed at when I had enough letters (i.e. “hackaday” and when I got since I looked around t’interweb for the since date as it was faster =^p)

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004
using an Intermec CN3, a printer and Excel mobile

It says “hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″.

I have an G1 and used the ixMAT Scanner App.

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

I’m home sick with the flu and really bored, so I used:
http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx

@ James Hunter

Clever, as long as you’re dealing with a problem that’s easy to solve. For the truly thorny problems, which this one wasn’t, you’d be high and dry.

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

I cheated a bit and just scanned the screen directly with one of these: http://www.scanning.datalogic.com/sitefiles/qs6500bt.aspx

“hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″

I read the 1600 other posts above.

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

Found with a Symbol LS2208

Its Say “IIIIII IIIIII IIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII”

I win.

“hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″ – Used handy Symbol P360 scanner

The image at top say “HACK A DAY” with a logo on its left… deciphered with my left eye confirmed with the right :p

Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat!

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

Being an executive – I just waited for one of the Dilbert types to figure it out and then copied their answer.

I would like to add I used wikipedia, gimp and vi’s search replace

“hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″
Printed it out, went to the local hardware store and used one of the scanners they provide for clients to check prices.

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

I found it reading other user’s post?

XD

you gotta say, this is creative?=p

Why spend energy on something when the harsh job is already done for you ^^

i agree with Jay…
hacking is all about the hardwork done to
avoid having to re-envent the wheel

;)

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

How’d I decode it? By letting some other sap do it. Why re-invent the wheel? >:D

Opensource ocr reeader gocr says..

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

Printed it out and used my hacked Cuecat to read it.

I’d assume since you have to have a start bit and a stop bit (and without actually scanning this or using some fancy website), by reading the entries above this post, I’m guessing that it says:

*hackaday.com – hacking since 2004H*

Here is what I used… Photoshop and Open office
Step 1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43332689@N02/3990075867/

Step 2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43332689@N02/3990831532/

Step 3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43332689@N02/3990831852/

Step 4
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43332689@N02/3990832372/

Step 5
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43332689@N02/3990077269/

took me a while to decode it all and now my eyes hurt lol

It says:

“hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″

Deciphered by reading the comments page and using the work of others before me….

I copied the picture into GIMP, cropped it so that there was only one row of pixels, containing the barcode, and saved it as a PPM file. Then I wrote a Python script to find the width of the bars. With at a list of bar widths, I looked through Wikipedia until I found that Code 128b had codes that looked like the ones from the image. Using Wikipedia and Openoffice.Org Calc, I made a lookup table. I converted the lookup table into a Python dictionary and wrote a snippet that turned the bar widths into characters using the dictionary.

The website should have the source.

hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

I printed it out at 100% 50% 30% and 10% and scanned them with my Kanescan into a TextEdit.

Let’s try that again.

The website should have the source. Ignore the SSL warning.

I forgot to mention my result.
“hackaday.com – hacking since 2004H”

“hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″

1st method: I drew it in my etch-a-sketch and had my 4 year old nephew translate. It took 3 tries and I had to reboot (read: shake-it) several times.

Actual method: I read the comments and copied off over everyone else’s work. Why should I try and do something that’s already been done for me?

Hackaday.com – hacking since 2004

I used a CueCat.

Hi all!!!

I just scanned it with my USB Barcode skanner, and it decoded it for me :p

What it says:
hackaday.com + hacking since 2004

Haha, ithink i have the (by far :p) simpliest solution.

“hackaday.com – hacking since 2004″

Anyone understand this or just copy pastad some program?

In case you dont.

Think of a black line as a 1
and a white or blank as a 0

Now hmm…. we go ahead and get the binary out of it and convert it to ascii, and by golly.

The trick is seeing the tiny ass lines that make up the breaks …

happy haxin