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24 alternatives to Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves
The personal blog of Brian Carrigan, software and electronics engineer.
Brian Carrigan's personal blog documents his software and electronics engineering projects. The site features Wunderscan, a project where he repurposed a discarded barcode scanner found at a reuse center into a pantry… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN! This is a hobby project of mine that recently landed me my first interview and helped me get my first internship offers. Draw on a QR code, and the health bars will accurately display how close the QR code is to being unscannable. How few errors does it take to break a QR code? How many errors can a QR code handle? Counters at the bottom track your record minimum and maximum damage. (Can you figure out how to break a QR code with 0.0% damage to the actual data region?) Also, click on the magnifying glass button to toggle between "draw mode" and "inspect mode". I encourage you to use…
2025 · qris.cool · its alternatives →
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Contribute to GistNoesis/BrickRegistration development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Clean Clode▲154I’ve been impressed with Claude Code but one thing that sometimes gets in the way in my workflows is the messy, mangled text that is shown when pasting text from the Claude Code terminal sessions. So I built an open-source utility that cleans extraneous white space, pipes, and other characters from your CC/Codex pastes. For example, you can turn this: `How can I create a Claude Code script that │ │ cleans up extraneous characters and cleans up │ │ extra spaces, new lines, and other messiness │ when I copy from Claude Code terminal │ │ prompts or copy code from Claude Responses in │ │…
Mar 2026 · cleanclode.com · its alternatives →
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Orca Scan▲135Scan barcodes into your database - no code, no API, no devs
2024 · orcascan.com · its alternatives →
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Transform boring barcodes into beautiful brand assets
Apr 2026 · barkod.studio · its alternatives →
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Ping Penguin▲73Personalised scannable stickers that get your stuff back
2022 · pingpenguin.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I'm Alex - the creator of STRICH (https://strich.io), a barcode scanning library for web apps. Barcode scanning in web apps is nothing new. In my previous work experience, I've had the opportunity to use both high-end commercial offerings (e.g. Scandit) and OSS libraries like QuaggaJS or ZXing-JS in a wide range of customer projects, mainly in logistics. I became dissatisfied with both. The established commercial offerings had five- to six-figure license fees and the developer experience was not always optimal. The web browser as a platform also seemed not to be the main…
2023 · strich.io · its alternatives →
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Scan Barcodes + QR codes and search them online
2019 · barcodescanr.com · its alternatives →
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An android application that helps you scan barcode.
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Cross-platform barcode scanner testing utility
May 2026 · barcodescanneremulator.dev · its alternatives →
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Integration library for all your Android hardware barcode scanner integration needs - enioka-Haute-Couture/enioka_scan
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Read/Create/Write Custom Codes to QRcodes or NFC tags
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Barcode scanner and AI ingredient analysis for vegans
2025 · veganverify.com · its alternatives →
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- The Ad Free Barcode Scanner
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Free AI QR & Food Scanner with Material Design 3
Dec 2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi y'all. Been working on something that should've been made a long time ago imo. It compiles codebases into O(1) hashmaps that the agent queries to discover the structure of your code/answer questions/write code. It also does complete static analysis checks on any writes the agent makes. Don't take my word for it though. Here are the benchmarks: https://benzi.fly.dev/benchmark. on 2/20 tests, Claude Code (mostly Sonnet on one task) regressed or timed out. Benzi didn't because of course, it has a map it can query and not get lost in the sauce. On the other 18 it…
Aug 2026 · benzi.fly.dev · its alternatives →
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QR Code Reader the sign of success.
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Offline QR & barcode scanner with custom QR code design
Dec 2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Change your Smartphone into a powerful QR & Barcode Scanner
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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AttackerView▲13Last week I wrote about building a scanner that writes its own exploits. A cron job runs Claude Code every night, it reads new CVEs, writes proof-of-concept checks, tests them against vulnerable and patched Docker instances, and opens PRs. I review and merge in the morning. That post was about how t
Feb 2026 · attackerview.com · its alternatives →
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