paper: Beach Cities Robotics Clock In System

[Brandon Holley]

We really love the check-in system you guys have put together and are attempting to implement it currently.

For some reason we are having issues reading the barcodes with our barcode scanner we purchased. We did follow the instructions and copied the font into the windows font folder. Excel and the barcode scanner will scan various barcodes we have laying around with no issue (like the barcode for the serial# on our Dell desktops). However, with a black and white printout from our printer, we are unable to get the scanner to register the codes.

Do you have any insight into this type of issue or any suggestions we may be able to try to correct it?

Thanks for the great program.

-Brando

[akeisic]

The first thing that comes to mind is to try a couple different background colors for the badge. If it's sufficiently dark enough, the bar code reader might be picking up the frame of the bar code box as opposed to the bar code itself.

Outside of that I can't think of any smoking gun solution.

Andrew

[This Guy]

This looks amazing!!! Team 4322 has been looking into something like this for the team and so far nothing even comes close to it. However, is there any way we can edit the badges or will we just have to make our own? I would like to change the background on them to 1 of 2 images for Students or Mentors/Parents, and is there a way to put our logo instead of just text? Or change the font of the team name?

[This Guy]

Originally Posted by This Guy

This looks amazing!!! Team 4322 has been looking into something like this for the team and so far nothing even comes close to it. However, is there any way we can edit the badges or will we just have to make our own? I would like to change the background on them to 1 of 2 images for Students or Mentors/Parents, and is there a way to put our logo instead of just text? Or change the font of the team name?

Nevermind, after skimming through the code I was able to fine the comment with a password.

[Dwight_2]

Originally Posted by This Guy

Nevermind, after skimming through the code I was able to fine the comment with a password.

Where did you find the password?
My team is also looking into a solution like this and would like to put our team logo on the badges instead of text.

[This Guy]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

We really love the check-in system you guys have put together and are attempting to implement it currently.

For some reason we are having issues reading the barcodes with our barcode scanner we purchased. We did follow the instructions and copied the font into the windows font folder. Excel and the barcode scanner will scan various barcodes we have laying around with no issue (like the barcode for the serial# on our Dell desktops). However, with a black and white printout from our printer, we are unable to get the scanner to register the codes.

Do you have any insight into this type of issue or any suggestions we may be able to try to correct it?

Thanks for the great program.

-Brando

We are having the same issue. For some reason Excel is adding a "Space" after the code ("*"+content+"*"). I haven't found a way to get rid of it.

[akeisic]

Let me check into the problem.
-Andrew

[tr6scott]

It may be an issue with the programming of the barcode reader too. The reader when scanned needs to send a <CR> character too. The barcode reader we used, you were able to program this behavior, by scanning barcodes in the manual.

We have used this program in the past, and that was the only issue we had.

When you scan the code, does the number show up in the excel data entry cell, and you just need to manually hit enter?

We used a Honeywell hand scanner purchased off of ebay for about $15.

Have you tried printing with a different printer? Maybe something with the black ink? See if a Laser print out of the badges works?

[marshall]

This is pretty neat! We use a homegrown system built on Ruby on Rails that does a lot of this too. Good job getting all of this in Excel though. Truly impressive stuff!

Link to 900's system in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/FRC900/timesheet