Barcode Scanner - anyone know of an engine I can purchase

neoteric

I intend to add a barcode scanner to a project I am working on. It needs to be laser. I searched Digikey and Mouser, and could not find a single component. I just spent a lot of time on google. I also searched the stamp forums here, but it looks like no-one has done this with a stamp?

I did find one from Honeywell, but it contains the scanner and the decoder board for $89. My hope was to find just the scanner part, and do my own decoder with the propeller, of course.

My hope is that someone else on this board knows of a small laser barcode scanner physical engine I could use in my project. Thanks in advance for the help.

Beau Schwabe

It's not a laser scanner, but the Cue-Cat barcode scanner will work with a slight modification to the keyboard object on the Propeller (I have one and tested this).

For a time, Radio shack was giving away The Cue-Cats with every purchase. It looks like the original company is no more, but you can still find a few readers on E-bay here and there.



Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

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Beau Schwabe

IC Layout Engineer
Parallax, Inc.

Agent420

I'm not sure you'll find just the laser module, and given the commodity nature of bc scanners these days I almost think an assembled unit will be near as cheap as the components.· But really they are just vibrating mirrors or line scanners with a photodiode to capture the reflection.

You might consider eBay for a used one.· If you get a PS2 interface it will plug right in.

I've got my share of CueCats too ;-)




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Post Edited (Agent420) : 9/1/2009 4:41:15 PM GMT

WBA Consulting

I have 2 Symbol LS-1220 Serial Laser Scan Engines and they work quite nicely. I have a project in the backseat that will utilize them. Check eBay for "LS-1220", they are inexpensive, small, and very durable. Power is supplied on two unused pins on the DB-9 on the back. I can dig up the datasheets if you have trouble finding them.

This guy has a few of them for $20
cgi.ebay.com/Symbol-LS-1220-1200A-Miniscan-Barcode-Scanner_W0QQitemZ140274286346QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item20a8ffbf0a&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

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Andrew Williams
WBA Consulting
WBA-TH1M Sensirion SHT11 Module