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Using a magnetic card reader with jQuery

Posted on January 8th, 2010 by GaretJax

Lately I was playing with a magnetic stripe card reader in order to develop an application to manage the members registration and identification for our university students union. I tried to differentiate the input source of the reader from the keyboard using some low-level USB library, but then found out that the device – which [...]