RSSArduino and RFID
Jul 09
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The internet can be a terrible thing for people like myself with painfully short attention spans. I’ve acquired this nasty habit of finding something new and exciting on the interwebs and clicking the buy button without knowing precisely what it is that I’ve just purchased.
This happened to me a couple of months ago when I picked up a copy of the RFID Toys kit. Don’t get me wrong, the book came highly recommended and the author is a staple in the hacking community. What I didn’t know was that several projects in the book would require a Parallax Basic Stamp to complete. And while I don’t have any specific reasons for not wanting a Basic Stamp, I just don’t want one.
So this RFID Toys kit has been sitting around my house collecting dust for a couple of months now when I decided that it would be more fun, more interesting, and more educational if I were to complete the RFID Toys projects by interfacing the Phidgets RFID reader to my Arduino board. I have not seen this done so far, only links for interfacing the Arduino to the Parallax RFID module.
This is one of the projects that I will be undertaking over the coming weeks.