Can you take your bar code sticker to Staples and have them laminate it?

Have you checked with Hobby Lobby, Michaels, other craft stores?

Perhaps you could cut a piece from one of those clear plastic 'clamshell' boxes that some fresh fruits, cherry tomatoes, etc., come in.

Or check a dollar store, such as Dollar Tree, for some sort of clear plastic container you could cut a piece out of.

Rusty

What Raye said is just the ticket.

Walmart sells laminating pouches. I think they come in packs of four or something like that for under $5.

I think laminating it would be the best solution. Then it could be put on a lanyard for easy access.

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You could put your bar code between two pieces of clear packing tape. It would be pretty bendy, but that tape seems to be almost indestructible.

Or stick it to a piece of clear packing tape -- sticky side to sticky side and then tape that to any opaque credit card sized piece of plastic.

They have those magnifiers that are the size of a credit card, that should work maybe.

What about a clear luggage tag? Just mount it inside. It already has the ties so it can be attached to something...his bike?

Great ideas, everyone! Thanks so much. So the neighborhood charged $5 per barcode so I’m checking with the HOA to see if they’ll give me a couple for no cost to test my theory.

Or just cut the barcode off of a box and try it first if they won't give you free samples.

I was going to suggest packing tape as well. It's what I use to laminate small items like that.

And you might be able to recycle some clear plastic from packaging - cutting it to fit with a bit extra allowance around the edges, or even enough extra on 1 end to punch a hole in and put on a lanyard.

Or actually get 1 of those clear vinyl waterproof pouches for cell phones, ID badges, etc.. They usually are on a lanyard as well.

Just realized a cheap screen protector might work well as something to stick the thing to.

I wonder if it's just a barcode or some of RFID sticker.

I have a Sunpass Mini sticker for the turnpike. Although it has a barcode, it's not on the side that faces forward. The barcode is not read. Instead the windshield is somehow turned into an antenna that the reader reads.

Supposedly they have to be firmly attached to the inside of the windshield and once attached will not work again if removed even if reattached.

And can not be handheld.

And will not work on a motorcycle windshield. (too small perhaps?)

(https://www.sunpass.com/en/about/sunpassTransponders.shtml)

I'm not saying that's what you have. I don't know. Maybe it is.

Then again, if it was just a barcode, anybody could walk up to a resident's car, snap a photo, print it and use it to gain access.

I'd think it would be up to... whoever to correct the problem.

Not being able to call wouldn't be acceptable to me.

Maybe they need to install a call box?

So it’s not a barcode actually, but I didn’t know what else to call it. I think it may be an RFID as mentioned.

There is a call box, but the problem is if it’s the homeowner themself trying to get in on a bike you are not at home to answer! I have my cellphone number as the contact for the call box but the service is spotty and we have had the issue of calling our own cell from the box but there is no service to the cell I’m standing there holding then I can’t let myself in lol.

I never had any desire to live in a gated community, but this is ridiculous.

Oh. I didn't realize how a call box works. I assumed some other "person in charge of the gate" could be reliably contacted.

From the site that issued my toll sticker:

"Holding the transponder often causes inconsistent communications
between the transponder and the lane reader."

Maybe as a bicyclist or pedestrian it would work fine? No windshield to interfere? Even if you had to wave it around a time or two. :)

If so, laminating (or one of the other ID holders) might work fine.

I still might test it to make sure it was going to work before going to the trouble of laminating it though.