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jeroendoggen/Arduino-ms1-barcode-scanner-library
An Arduino library skeleton for the Microscan MS-1 industrial barcode scanner, communicating over UART. Last touched in 2013, zero stars, and it is clearly unfinished — the README is mostly pseudo-code and open questions.
Bundles the MS-1 manufacturer PDFs and firmware in the repo, so you at least have the reference material without hunting. The two-phase API design in the README (v1 flat, v2 class-decomposed) shows some intentional thinking about separation of concerns.
The implementation is a stub — there is a placeholder .ino example and headers, but no working read/parse logic shipped. The README is a design scratchpad, not documentation. Zero community: 0 stars, 0 forks, abandoned for over a decade. The MS-1 is a niche discontinued industrial scanner; the addressable audience was tiny even in 2013.