Re: Need help to automate my food management.

[Lehane Kellett <lehane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lots of ways to do it, depending on cost and effort-

Add a 'keyboard wedge' scanner to a PC, these come up on ebay for =A310 up.
Everything you scan looks like a keyboard input. Or use a serial scanner
an=
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one of the input interfaces. Either way a simple piece of software (or even
Excel will do the job).

Next up the scale is to get a secondhand Palm PDA with built in scanner=20
- again
these are around secondhand, made by Symbol. There's software, such as
Scanlite, which will do the job and Hotsync the list into whatever you
want=
.

At the top end, one of the new Windows 2003 PDA's from Intermec, Symbol,
et al., have a scanner and WiFi built in. You can scan into a browser=20
application
_and_ use them for home automation control. But not cheap.

There are a number of failed companies in the retail industry that have=20
tried keyring
scanners, etc., but not got anywhere.

And the big question, do you really want the same can of beans again?

Lehane

christopher purves wrote:
> I would be very interested in this. Ideally a scanner in the kitchen
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> you zap barcodes of stuff we have run out of thatg build a shopiing
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>> From: Andy <andysideas@xxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> Subject: [ukha_d] Need help to automate my food management.
>> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:36:30 +0000
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>> We've all seen 'the tech house of the future' on TV shows.
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>> It seems to me that I've been waiting ever since Tommorows World
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>> in the 80's. I even remember them talking about being able to
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>> on a TV trailer and have it added to a schedule. Well god knows
how many
>> years, and I see Sky now have this feature !
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>> Anyway, back to the topic.
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>> I'm your bog standard bloke. Stuck at home with no idea what
ingredients=
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>> have in stock, and even once I've sifted through the cupboards I
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>> know what to cook !
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>> So I know we're not there yet where were are able zap barcodes and
have =
the
>> fridge suggest recipes. But can anyone recommend anything that is
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>> today?
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>> I've only seen one website where you can enter ingredients and
search fo=
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>> recipes, but its pretty rubbish.
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>> Hope I've got the question across in this long winded email......
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