On Wednesday 01 October 2003 21:08, pkmndata wrote:
> For what it's worth, even if you do manage to come up with the
> barcode source code itself, distrubuting it won't be that
> easy. From my experience, the dot coding will only work if
> made from a VERY POWERFUL printer...
There are scanner/printer combos now that do 4800DPI (or claim
to), and if you give them expensive enough glossy paper the
print might be clean enough to scan into the e-reader. My
printer only goes up to 600DPI so I'm afraid I won't be testing
it though... I bet we could decipher the format with a little
trial and error and be able to publish stuff that way, I'm not
sure how much encryption they could really be doing on the fly
with a 16MHz processor.
I too have been interested in the e-Reader, but alas I have don't have any information on it. For what it's worth, even if you do manage to come up with the ...
... There are scanner/printer combos now that do 4800DPI (or claim to), and if you give them expensive enough glossy paper the print might be clean enough to...
(just few personal opinion notes on e-reader, no facts) ... The e-reader itself can't have too much DPI IMHO, it has to be cheap? Or not? ... Why on the fly?...
... I was thinking more along the lines of cheap inkjets not producing enough contrast at the edge of the dots. I actually have no idea how 2-dimensional...
... The best I have had with trying to print, was a read error, meaning some of the codes were scannable in the e-reader, and some of them were not. If only...
... DMCA ?! *evil laughter* ... whatever you do, i'd start with looking at US patents - the barcode N uses for gamecube disc authentification is patented and...
... mmmh there was also a simelar site for european and japan patents... (google should find it for you :=P). didnt have much luck there previously either, but...
If print quality is a problem then write a program to generate the output to a tiff file. The file can then be taken a professional graphic arts shop and they...
Daniel
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Oct 3, 2003 1:31 pm
Here's how to e-reader works for the most part. After plugging the E-Reader into the GBA as if it were a cartridge, turn on your GBA. Then you'll go into some...
I got a package fro ups the other day which has a small label that looks just like the code on an e-reader card (Not the usual clustered mess of a label). ...
webmaster
webmaster@...
Oct 4, 2003 9:05 pm
It would probably be much easier to just disassemble the e-reader rom to find out exactly how it works. I'm assuming this would be much easier than staring at...
I tried to decipher the e-Reader dotcodes last year by staring at the dots but had to give up, all those dots were starting to give me a headache :/ Here is a...
... the dots ... headache :/ ... the dotcode ... Maybe you could write something to output a higher quality error free dot code image, that might actually...
... An error free dot code image? You mean something like http://users.skynet.be/firefly/gba/e-reader/slp100.bmp :) Btw, I printed it on a label using my Seiko...
Sunday, September 28, 2003, 9:44:04 AM, you wrote: DA> I posted some time ago regarding need for an e-Reader dissection. All DA> the leads that turned up as a...
Leonid Zaprudsky
leprud@...
Oct 8, 2003 2:46 pm
That might have something to do with the fact that the dot code is 360 dpi ... -Stephen ... From: "Tim Schuerewegen" <Tim.Schuerewegen@...> To:...
Pretty much. The dots should have some white space between them. Also, can you provide me that same image, but in 1200 DPI, length = 7.3cm, width = 0.3cm?...
that image is dot-accurate :) you can easily do image processing on it to attain the correct size. -Stephen ... From: "Damien Good" <d_good@...> To:...
Me either... I compared the printout of mine to another dot code though, and see it's a little bit smaller... I wonder if maybe it's not 360dpi (As I suspect),...
Did the printout scan and work? ... 3650 (brand new) to get the...
Daniel
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Oct 11, 2003 8:24 am
... No, it did not. I guess the 203 DPI dotcode was too large for the e-Reader because the quality was perfect. Now some good news ... I bought a HP DeskJet...
Well as I said I would here is my effort to stimulate our efferts to understand how to use the e-Reader to 'play our code'.. A cash prize is now offered for...
Daniel
webmaster@...
Oct 12, 2003 9:07 am
Cool Tim, keep up the good work. Did you see that website posted in the previous topic? They're offering 300 big ones ($300) to anyone who can figure out how...
http://www.alpha-ii.com/caitsith2/ereader/dot-code%20block.jpg - explanation on how the raw data is stored in the dotcode blocks in the strip. Now, the only...
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