hacksugar: CueCat barcode scanner on the iPad
What do you get when you combine an iPad, a camera connection kit, and a USB CueCat barcode reader? Awesome, that's what you get. Sure you can use an iPhone with RedLaser and read barcodes sans extra equipment, but where's the challenge in that? The Mac Museum put together this awesome little hack, which reads the codes via the CueCat and then creates keyboard events to type out the codes as they are read.
We're told the solution is completely plug-and-play -- no hacking, no jailbreaking required. It should work with programs like Price Grabber, where you normally type in the UPCs manually, and with Numbers -- although apparently it doesn't seem to work with Grocery IQ. Cool stuff. The Mac Museum picked up their USB CueCat for $8.88 buy-it-now with $5.55 shipping on eBay.
