Economy Size Geek

Ok so I dusted off my old box of CueCats and preped them to be used in a
project I’m working on. Apparently if you solder them just right they work
as straight up bar code scanners. I got them to work almost perfectly (Fine
under windows and Linux - but not X Windows).
Thank goodness for Air Solder They had the guide which I didn’t follow exactly right since I had to resolder the wire once I realized I was on a different board.

Thanks go out to “The Koreano” for riding shotgut the thru the process. He did the disassembly and cutting - I did the soldering.

Here’s some pics of the work:

Here we were removing the serial number - turns out you don’t have to do that.

THis is the diagram of which one to cut

Cutting the connecton

Getting down to business with the soldering iron.

Here you can see where we jumpered the r29 to the +5V on the led

This is the top side of the board

The “declawed” cats with marks to show which ones I have and haven’t modified (since I have 6 unmodified cats still)