I found this site today http://allaboutbeer.com/235airplane which shows a plane similar to the one I have. Will have to try making one. A little disappointed that the instructions aren't more detailed. Seems like they always assume you know more than you do. :/
The biggest problem I have right now is cutting the cans. I always end up with pointy pieces hanging off. :(
If / when I make one I'll be sure to post a picture. Might even try to document what I do for others :)
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Book Database - Continued
Programs are moving along nicely. I have 459 books in the database so far. I can search by Title, Author and Genre and display the info. Still need to make a way to indicate that a book was read and by whom. Will want to the ability to modify the data too because sometimes I pulled double descriptions and its annoying to modify the database directly.
The Barcode scanner is annoying because I had to increase the timeout more to get all the codes. Will have to revisit the technical specifications to see if I can tell what is going on (betting that the code I have is a little lacking...)
Was able to reset both scanners to defaults and now they both beep when a code is scanned, just so I can confirm it :).
Have a lot of books that don't have barcodes so I'm manually typing in the ISBN. Have some books from the 50s that don't have the ISBN so I'll have to figure out how to manually get them into the database :).
All in all, I'm pretty happy with the way it is turning out.
The Barcode scanner is annoying because I had to increase the timeout more to get all the codes. Will have to revisit the technical specifications to see if I can tell what is going on (betting that the code I have is a little lacking...)
Was able to reset both scanners to defaults and now they both beep when a code is scanned, just so I can confirm it :).
Have a lot of books that don't have barcodes so I'm manually typing in the ISBN. Have some books from the 50s that don't have the ISBN so I'll have to figure out how to manually get them into the database :).
All in all, I'm pretty happy with the way it is turning out.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Book Database
Well, my book database is moving right along. I found that the barcode on the back of the book isn't very reliable so I've moved to the ISBN number on the inside cover and this barcode seems to give me good data consistently. The problem is that those barcodes are only included on books made after 1986.
I scanned about 50 books with my Symbol CS1504 barcode scanner and when I went to pull them in with my program I only got 19 records... WTH? In trouble shooting the code (C#), I found that if I paused 750 miliseconds after each 'batch' read from the scanner that I would get the correct number of barcodes. Very strange. My current theory is that the code is just too fast for the serial comm to keep up.
So I have those codes stored in a database and now I am working on the program that pulls the data from Amazon (PHP). I've got it pulling the data and putting into my book object, now I just need to write the code to store that data into the database.
After that I will work on the code to view / search / edit the data (PHP).
I scanned about 50 books with my Symbol CS1504 barcode scanner and when I went to pull them in with my program I only got 19 records... WTH? In trouble shooting the code (C#), I found that if I paused 750 miliseconds after each 'batch' read from the scanner that I would get the correct number of barcodes. Very strange. My current theory is that the code is just too fast for the serial comm to keep up.
So I have those codes stored in a database and now I am working on the program that pulls the data from Amazon (PHP). I've got it pulling the data and putting into my book object, now I just need to write the code to store that data into the database.
After that I will work on the code to view / search / edit the data (PHP).
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