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The Eugene Maker Space's entry in the Red Bull Creation contest dispenses cans in a mysterious fog through an iris opening. But it's also capable of disposing of the Red Bull cans... and only those cans. If you try to put a different soda in it will violently reject it! First off we must applaud the Eugene Makers for their prolific documentation of the project. There's a day or two worth of … [Read more...]
[Damcave] decided to try out some bar code reader projects. He got his hands on a CueCat years ago. The problem is that it outputs encrypted character sets instead of a clear text string. To get around this he used his Arduino to decrypt the CueCat's data output. Originally you could get you hands on a CueCat for free. It was meant to work like QR codes do now -- you see a bar code, you scan it … [Read more...]
Instead of building a $500 iPad into a cabinet [Gojimi] used the old hardware he had lying around to building this kitchen computer. He did buy a few items such as a used touchscreen and a bar code scanner but the 2 GHz computer was just collecting dust. It's running Windows XP, talks to you like HAL or KITT, and scans the bar codes on food as you add it to the pantry or using it for meals. The … [Read more...]
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