Voyage of the S.S. UPC Scanner
I got this silly idea in my head last week that I’d take my brand-new high-def handheld video camera and use it to produce a catalog of books, DVDs, etc. that are lying around the house. Simple premise – turn on the camera and wave games, DVDs, etc. at it. Every Nth frame in the video stream, search for UPC codes. Produce the unique set of codes and look them up in any one of the existing online databases. Poof – a complete record of whatever I’ve got sitting around.
And along the way learn WPF, image manipulation, video processing, LINQ, etc. etc.
