Joshua's Thoughts

demo: rfid reader + arduino for point of sale solution

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i’ve put together this video as a demo of “intuit checkout” - the idea that won the last intuit ideajam contest.

intuit checkout is a low-cost point of sale hardware/software solution that uses an arduino prototyping board and a parallax rfid reader.

all of the item data associated with the unique ids on the rfid’s are stored securely in a quickbase online database.

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“what is an arduino?”

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here’s an excellent write-up on what an arduino is and what it can be used to do: link

arduino + photoresistor + led

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i spent a little time last night playing with arduino and i thought i’d share this little experiment i put together.

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