>The key question is if it reads RFIDs that aren't its own. If you have
>to use theirs it would be very expensive. Although I was hoping to
>make an "inventory" system by which you pass your rabbit over your
>shelves and it tells you what is missing. You could of course do a
>check-in/check-out system too, for a small library. Indeed, sans
>computer.
One Nabaztag of Checkin, the other for Checkout.. Would be nice.
But No I have to admit that I haven't looked at the nabaztag RFID capabilities at all. Although there has been some work to reverse engineer it's message protocols. There's even a proxy, that will allow you to interface directly with it, instead of going through the violet servers. So perhaps the answer is already out there, on the big wide internets...
-b.
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries on behalf of Tim Spalding
Sent: Wed 3/25/2009 3:51 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] A Rabbit, a webcam, a Library and a webservice...
I'm waiting for mine so I can play. I ordered a bunch of their
colorful RFIDs. I didn't really understand the mini-rabbit.
The key question is if it reads RFIDs that aren't its own. If you have
to use theirs it would be very expensive. Although I was hoping to
make an "inventory" system by which you pass your rabbit over your
shelves and it tells you what is missing. You could of course do a
check-in/check-out system too, for a small library. Indeed, sans
computer.
Tim
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Bernd T. Wunsch
<Bernd.T.Wunsch_at_nias.ku.dk> wrote:
> Well I wish I could, but the stamp that we got (the little grey rabbit in background on the video) doesn't seem to set the rabbit of. Now I'm not sure if it's the tag or the Rabbit. But currently it doesn't work :-/
>
> But yeah, this would be much more fun using rfids. I guess violet already does something like this with the French Childrens books that they sell, which the rabbit can read aloud.
>
> -b.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries on behalf of Tim Spalding
> Sent: Wed 3/25/2009 3:40 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] A Rabbit, a webcam, a Library and a webservice...
>
> 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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