Talk:CueCat
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Any place you can get one free these days? Superweirdash
- Ha. No. Not for the last five years or so. You can get them from eBay for a few bucks, or some other places. If you have an actual use for them, I'd say it's well worth it; traditional barcode readers are still frightfully uncheap. I'm considering fetching one myself to catalog my books. (Oh, and you can sign your comments by writing ~~~~ after your comment. I've done it above for you.) grendel|khan June 29, 2005 20:34 (UTC)
- I got mine for free from a RadioShack in Alaska in 2001. They were handing them out, and I knew I didn't need it, but it looked cool :). -Mysekurity(have you seen this?) 05:09, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Cleanup?
Is there a particular reason that cleanup was requested? The article seems to flow pretty well for me; what's wrong with it? grendel|khan 03:37, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Pictures
Do pictures that I have taken of copyrighted devices count as my work? If I want to take a picture of a :CueCat, do I have to tag it as {{fairuse}}, or can I tag it as {{PD-self}}? -Mysekurity 23:29, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
- If you make a picture of a car, does the pic belong to you, or to General Motors? There is already a plethora of pictures of eg. gaming consoles and other stuff as {{GFDL}}, so I don't see why {{pd-self}} would be wrong choice here. On another note, do you plan to make a pic of its circuitboard and the sensing element too? --Shaddack 02:30, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
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- Thanks, and I don't see why not. I guess I'll first take a few pictures of the device itself, then of its parts (I have the PS/2 model) like the plug and others. I kind of want to keep my :CueCat just to laugh at it in a few more years. Maybe I could get another one for cheap, which I'd be willing to dissasemble, just this one has some small significance to me. I'll upload the pictures as soon as I can (and if I forget--not done in a week--feel free to spam my talk page). Thanks again, Mysekurity 03:07, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
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- Please do. Cuecats go for under ten bucks each after shipping, and way less if those eBay people let you combine shipping. grendel|khan 05:32, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Article Title
Is it possible to rename the article to something like :CueCat or some lead Unicode character? Similar to how C plus plus was done. 130.156.3.34 20:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
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- It's not possible, due to technical restrictions. The article title must begin with a capitalized alphabet character or a numerical. Czj 00:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DigitalConvergence
If I'm not mistaken, CueCat was really DigitalConvergence's only claim to fame. As such, and since there was no Wikipedia article for DC, I've redirected DigitalConvergence to CueCat, at least until (or if) someone decides to expand on the corp itself. --Czj 23:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
- There was also another technology CRQ that they developed with a similar premise. You'd hear a tone on TV that sounded like a knock and a musical note and it would somehow send you to a particular website. I don't think that any major advertisers or programs ever employed this, but I'm not sure, nor do I know how it worked (e.g., how it got the TV signal into the software and how it got the URL.)128.195.20.127 23:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Pretty crude, they made a cable with a phono stacking plug on one end and a stereo jack the other to plug into your soundcards line in. I got one with my (unfortunately broken) cuecat and i think i still have it somewhere. Plugwash 16:08, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hobbyists
Aren't there communities of hobbyists that hacked them for other purposes? Or are they used just as a standard barcode reader? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.203.200.2 (talk • contribs)
- Not as far as I know. I've read about hobbyists who played around with the guts a little bit and got some weird results, but nothing noteworthy or conclusive other than the ability to use it as a bar code scanner. If you've read about anything else though, I'd be interested in taking a look. --stufff 23:38, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
- Barcode scanner's as far as the hardware could be pushed. They weren't capable of much more. Apparently some people stripped out most of the hardware apart from the LED, added batteries and a switch, and used it as a flashlight.
- What I think is strange is that nothing about hacking them is mentioned in the article. The CueCat is notable for only two things: a bunch of people remember getting them in the mail or getting them free at RadioShack, and a bunch of those people had a lot of fun figuring out how to hack them to get a free UPC scanner. The hacking effort is the notable part from a lot of people's perspective, and it doesn't even get a mention in the article. Maybe someone wants to start here: http://cexx.org/cuecat.htm — Saxifrage ✎ 03:02, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
- There are lots of Hacks for the :CueCat not many people knew about :CRQ which was the audio tone cueing system - a few adds had them and if your pc had the software loaded it would cache the tones it heard so you could look up the ad's or special offers 01:20, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Shape
The article says it's cat shaped, but many thought it looked like something else. // Liftarn
