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Hello,
By any chance does anyone in NET world know anything about
BarCode Readers?                                                      
For a class project, we have decide to build a barcode reader as
our project. However we are unfamiliar with the various component
parts (barcode chips, processors, etc) that are on the market that
we can purchase and incorporate in our design. We are hoping to
find a chip that will do the filtering and conversion of the raw
barcode data read by the wand and output the values in ascii form on
data lines (much like those infrared decoder chips that you can  
readily buy to read infrared signals from remote controllers).
We are not sure if similar chips exist for barcode readers. But it
is our sincerely hope that they do.... our grades depends on them. :)

Consequently, we would very much appreciated your help interms of
information about the parts (intergrated chips, barcode processor chips,
etc) that are available for us to purchase and the sources that we
can order them from.
We are interested in the parts down to the component level. We are     
trying to stay alway if possible to already built subunits. One of the
criteria of the project is that most of the soldering are to be done by    
us.

Sincerely,
Scott K. Stephen
scott@max.u.washington.edu