Can Puppy teach CueCat some tricks?

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Can Puppy teach CueCat some tricks?

#1 Post by SnowDog »

Here's one for the way more techies than me...

There's these little barcode scanners called CueCat (they actually look like a cat...bummer, not a puppy ) that Radio Shack used to give away...I have a few of them (USB models), for which I have linux drivers, but I don't have a clue what to do with them to make it work in puppy.

These scanners were passed out with software (that required the owner to register) from a company called Digital Convergence, (long since out of business...bla bla bla), anyway, they can still be found via e-bay, lots of peoples junk drawers, etc for next to nothing.

I thought that since puppy breeds new life into old systems it would be cool if it did the same for the Cat....besides I think if a Puppy could teach a Cat to do something useful....that would be a really neat puppy trick.

But, I don't have the skills to do it.

Anyone know what would be involved in making this possible :?:
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#2 Post by Flash »

So, you want to make a Cat Scanner? :lol:

It would help if you find the Linux program on the CD and tell us how big it is and what file extensions it has, e.g., rpm, tar.gz, etc..

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Hey Flash...

#3 Post by SnowDog »

Cat Scanner....MWahahaha...
The file I have is...
Name: cuecat-0.8.2.tar.gz
Size: 293 k
I could send it if you wanna have a peek inside.
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#4 Post by Flash »

You have several options. I don't know if that's source code but if it is you could try this program for compiling source tarballs into dotpups.

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Thanks Flash

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I grabbed that program but now i need some other compiling stuff that it complained about...I'll run it again when I have more time & go find the extras & give it a whirl.
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#6 Post by Guest »

I'm using a Modified USB CueCat with Puppy. The modification converts the scanner to a standard barcode reader so no special decrypting software is needed. I set up Puppy to use a USB keyboard (HID) and CueCat worked without any other configuration. A search of Ebay for "modified USB Cuecat" will show many available.

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Thanks Guest...anyone know how to modify one?

#7 Post by SnowDog »

Thanks for the input.

I really don't need this thing for anything, I just happen to know there are lots of them lying around so I thought it would be good to know if they'd work as is with Puppy. People might get a kick out of being able to organize wine or book collections or whatever by scanner for a dollar or so.

I played with the compiling a dot-pup from the drivers I found, but since I really have no clue what I'm doing, I didn't get too far.
Your post made me wonder though....anyone know how to modify one of these usb ones so it works like yours?

I would not think there'd be much to it (since it's such a simple device) but who knows?...I could be asking someone to re-invent the wheel.
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