2-Part question because I think I may know the answer to the first part: The existing solution was to set a timer on a form and read track by track for a few seconds. That doesn't seem too robust. My idea is to parse the card data and that way I'll know when I'm done. Unfortunately I just realized while writing this that I don't kno...
How would I accomplish this? Is there a specific brand of card reader/writer that works easily with linux and windows (linux being more important as I need to deploy these to cheap kiosks). ...
I currently have a USB card swipe attached to an embedded linux machine and from what I can tell and from what I have researched it acts as a keyboard, and inputs all the data as if I were typing. Now I have a perl script that takes all this data and saves it to a file. The only problem is, it only knows to take the data when the perl sc...