Are those the 125kHz things (or clones of) the parallax RFID reader?
If so, they work very nicely.
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
Adam you should join the access list:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/access
as for NFC wristbands, we will be using them, and we already have a USB
reader for them and Marc has been working on the software in git:
I think more than half of those bracelets actually work. libnfc sucks badly
btw (no non-blocking reads that don't have terrible failure modes) so I had
to make a new node.js nfc library that uses constant polling:
https://github.com/Juul/node-nfc
It works fine but... meh I'm not impressed with the solution.
There's another cheaper and potentially better solution. These things + an
arduino:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RFID-RC522-RF-IC-Card-Sensor-Arduino-module-with-2-…
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/10pcs-lot-MFRC-522-RC522-RFID-RF-IC-card-ind…
There's already an arduino library for it:
http://playground.arduino.cc/Learning/MFRC522
The Beagle Bone Black has 6 serial ports so we can use the single USB port
for the magnet stripe card reader and eliminate the need for a USB hub,
saving a few more dollars per door.
I'll get an order of 10 pack of 3.3v arduinos and a 10 pack of MFRC522s
approved and ordered so we can try it out.
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