Arduino

demo: rfid reader + arduino for point of sale solution

Added by Joshua McGinnis on September 17th, 2008, filed under Arduino

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.

About the Author: Joshua McGinnis

Joshua is a web designer and developer for Intuit, Inc. His other interests include guitar, photography, mycology, amateur chemistry, WWII movies and his beautiful wife Catherine.

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  1. Brian Sweat September 17, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    Nice demo! It’s amazing what you can do with QuickBase + Flex :)

    btw, I’m here via http://twitter.com/IntuitQuickBase/statuses/925145134

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  2. ril3y February 13, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    Cool stuff! Do you have anything stating what you used such as type of RFID reader? and how you hooked it up to the arduino?

    Thanks,

    ril3y

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    • Joshua February 16, 2009 at 11:26 am

      Hi. I used the Parallax RFID serial reader here. i’ll post the source when i get home later so you can see how to use it.

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  3. William March 26, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    Hey, I like what you did and I was just wondering if you had posted the source up for this project yet.

    Thanks!

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    • Joshua March 26, 2009 at 10:29 pm

      i’ve just updated the post to include the source.

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  4. William March 28, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    I’m a little lost, perhaps I am missing it somewhere, but I just cannot seem to find the source (or a link to it) anywhere on the page….

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  5. Joshua March 28, 2009 at 11:10 pm

    i haven’t posted the source. i should. why don’t you shoot me an e-mail at joshua_mcginnis@intuit.com and I’ll send it to you directly.

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  6. Ricardo de Bruyn May 17, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    Hi Joshua, nice demo and idea!!
    Can you send me more information/details about this project ? All about, if possible…

    Thanks
    Ricardo

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