Point of Sale System

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Overview

At the time of this writing, people pay for pop and snacks using cash money, like barbarians. The intent of the POS system is to allow club members to pay for pop/snacks/club membership renewal using money associated with a club account

Current Status

In Progress. Materials have been sourced, the following tasks remain:

Remaining Tasks

  • Building a wall mount for the playbook
  • Writing playbook client code
  • Hooking up playbook to card-reader via USB OTG
  • Interface playbook to a computer running the backend thrift service

Done

  • Thrift service: "git clone ~m4burns/pos"

Materials/Equipment

  • Blackberry Playbook
  • Rockethub USB hub + MicroUSB-USB cable
  • ARM touchscreen (not used, may be repurposed for other projects)