> My guess is that your inexpensive converter doesn't follow the PS2
> standards in the exactly the same way that the CueCat doesn't follow them=
..
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> You might hunt around for articles like that, and dig into the interface =
some
> more.
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> Or cut the cable off and interface directly.
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> References:
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> 1.  http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-and-CueCat-barcode-
> scanner/?ALLSTEPS
>     (undated, probably 2012)

That article is well out of date. You don't need an Arduino to decrypt the =
barcode, the cuecat has a pair of test points that you bridge and it doesn'=
t encrypt the barcode to start with. Well documented out on the web, and I =
would have thought this author should have discovered it if he had looked, =
because it wasn't very long after all the cuecat hoo-ha that I discovered i=
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