Bernd,
Did you look into the RFID "sniffer" in the Nabaztag? If a library has
RFID in its books, that could moot the need for a barcode scanner.
Tim
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Edward M. Corrado
<ecorrado_at_ecorrado.us> wrote:
> OK, I'm not sure how useful this is for an academic library (though I
> imagine it being a hit in the children's dept of a public library),
> but this is pretty neat. Is your code available? I'm almost willing to
> fork out $99 for one of these just to try it out.
>
> Edward
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Bernd T. Wunsch
> <Bernd.T.Wunsch_at_nias.ku.dk> wrote:
>> Hello NGC4Lib,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have been doing some serious mash-up work, and have created a
>> "book-rating-reading-rabbit" for our library. Oh and he twitters too...
>>
>>
>>
>> You can see him in action at:
>>
>> http://blip.tv/file/1915639
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The techy bit:
>>
>> The Rabbit if of course a nabaztag/tag from Violet.
>>
>> I used the Amazon AWS to go from the UPC to the desired info.
>>
>> The barcode scanning comes from barcodepedia.com (I used a slightly
>> changed edition of their flash-thingy).
>>
>> The glue that keeps it together runs on our webserver, and is all simple
>> php, curl, and the above mentioned flashfile.
>>
>>
>>
>> You can try it for yourself at: www.niaslinc.dk/kalle although I you
>> won't get to see or hear the rabbit spring into action, he will post
>> what he read aloud to his twitter stream at:
>> http://twitter.com/kalle_kanin. He also logs any visitors to our
>> website: http://www.asiaportal.info
>>
>>
>>
>> I've always wanted a small "magical amazon review box" in my library,
>> where you could get extra info just by scanning a book. But I guess I
>> had to build one myself before I got it :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> - Bernd.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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