Project14 | RFID or NFC: Win a Ready to Use NFC RFID Set!

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Jan Cumps — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 15:03:23 GMT

I may be just in time to submit a project for this. I'm going to to use an NFC reader to get public information from an electronic international passport.
I know that he reader can detect it (see video), and the documentation says it's possible.

[View:https://youtu.be/OoGQLNIviWE:640:360]

End result will be a Raspberry that can reveal that public data

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feiticeir0 — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:51:18 GMT

You got me by surprise when I got an email from UPS saying they have a package for me from Element14.

I really forgot about this.

I got the kit and lets get busy !

Thank you

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kmikemoo — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 01:53:46 GMT

I've always found this fascinating. NFC / RFID door locks are probably my favorite application. I think I may try using a RFID tag to allow people to join their phones to our guest network when they use our training room. It probably won't be as convenient to do it with their laptops, [emoticon:752f32bcc91d4a448db162742a877a4a]

I also really like the idea of using one to launch a mobile phone call. I work with emergency generators and the idea that if something goes wrong - which it should not - someone could swipe their phone past the RFID tag and it will bring up our After-hours Emergency phone number... very cool and very convenient. Back when my iPhone didn't do RFID, this wasn't as big a deal, but now... [emoticon:1435ff2429184e17bc948e4f19178e1e][emoticon:1435ff2429184e17bc948e4f19178e1e].

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spreadchunk — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:42:24 GMT

Daisy Chained NFC readers over network to track flight of migratory bird to elephants,

I plan to use existing networks to spread coverage

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flyingbean — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 02:39:38 GMT

I got a package of NFC controller: OM5577/PN7120SM(NXP) last month. Element14 NFC/RFID contest will be a good opportunity for me to learn more about NFC applications. I love reading books and doing projects, but I am not a good manager for my activities. I would like to build my own reading activity tracking system on PN7120 + Raspberry Pi platform. I used to track my reading activity via Excel spreadsheet, which was not very efficient. The book reading tracker empowered by NFC technology will encourage me to read more books in a better way.

The core hardware on OM5577/PN7120SM is NXP PN7120 NFC controller. I will learn how to integrate PN7210 with Raspberry Pi 3B. OM5577 did give me a sample NFC card for the experiment. I might need more NFC tags from Amazon for this project. What name is the project? I will figure it out this weekend. I am not sure there are suitable apps for my tracking system from Raspberry Pi open-source forums or not. I need to do more research before I decide to design a tracking system from scratch.

Last also not the least, I do need a fun user interface for my reading activity tracker so that I know I am on-track for the book reading plan or not. If I have time, I would like to add some animations for my tracker to reward myself for finishing a book on time.

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me_Cris — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:10:50 GMT

We all see on the streets every day (probably everywhere in the world there is such a thing) some parking spaces specially arranged for vehicles that can be rented, I refer to bicycles and electric scooters. Simple bicycles that we drive by pedaling, but also electric ones. As well as scooters, which are preferred by young people to move faster over short and medium distances (a few kilometers). The idea is that these vehicles have some value and can "disappear" (that's why they have GPS installed), but I was thinking about the situation of electric vehicles that are not only placed in a stand (a mechanical vehicle locking system is needed in the stand), but which can be a charging station at the same time (we have access to a power cable).
Let's take for example a spot A (which can be in public space, or at work) where we have placed a stand for electric scooters or electric bicycles, we can charge them in this place, so we also have a charging station. I am located in spot B (home), I can go to work with my personal scooter because the distance is not very long. I reach my destination, I go to the stand and leave my scooter/bike there, but I want to find it there even after 8 hours. It would be interesting to have a system that, after checking in with an RFID tag, would block my scooter in the stand (a metal plate with a hole in the middle is mounted on the scooter, which is inserted into the stand and an electromagnet inside will catch the scooter, the result, electronic lock). Even more, having a unique RFID tag, the system recognizes me, knows who I am (secure customer), and even allows me to use the charger for the scooter (pull a wire to the scooter). Another strong point would be that thanks to this unique RFID, when I check out, my scooter will be unlocked, not someone else's, so there is no confusion. Or otherwise, each RFID corresponds to a single parking space.
For another type of application, we can use an NFC tag for payment. For example, paying for parking (it is assumed that I leave my vehicle in a safe place, so maybe I have to pay some money for this service). Also, if I own an electric vehicle, and I leave it in a place where I have access to electricity, I may have the opportunity to charge the battery, with the charger from the station or my personal one. I use an NFC tag and pay for 2 hours of electricity consumption (basically I bought electricity on the spot).
We can also look at things from the perspective of the supplier, not only the customer. Supplier X offers us the parking space, maybe even a charging station, but he doesn't want absolutely all people to take advantage of these things, so a secure system would be needed.

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Drew4Me — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:30:07 GMT

ReLock: Recycling and Upcycling old 2nd hand electronic door locks

A lot of old electronic locks are appearing on the 2nd hand market, many of which no longer work.

I've just started trying to adapt some of these from their old proprietary centralised authentication setup to be easily enabled as local smart locks.

NFC seems to be the ideal solution to re-using and expanding some of this older technology.

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redcharly — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:45:31 GMT

It would be very interesting to use this technology in a project. For example, it would be interesting to create an access control to the school laboratories and to log the laboratory PCs used by students in real time.

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feiticeir0 — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:28:39 GMT

For some time now I've been wanting to try RFID . I've an idea for a cache for Geocaching. Maybe this is the time to do it.

It's nothing out of the ordinary - The geocacher just needs to use the mobile phone (this is the difficulty - The Geocacher has to find out that it needs to use the mobile phone).

Because RFID tags can be small, this is a great idea for a small cache.

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obones — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 12:29:34 GMT

Nice subject, I have a RFID keypad for access control that is sitting here waiting for me to "plug" it in my house control system.
I'll submit a project, it would be interesting to compare with what's in the proposed kit.

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javagoza — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:34:15 GMT

For several years I have been working on payment solutions with EMV cards (ISO 7816 & ISO 14443) and transport card top-ups (MIFARE, Calypso...) and access control solutions.

I do not know the range of ST NFC tags in depth, this is a good excuse to get to know it well and look for alternatives to some NXP tags that I have recently been evaluating for a specific project to identify private or public fleet vehicles for refueling fuel at gas stations.

(+) Unique identification of vehicles belonging to a fleet of vehicles for refueling at gas stations. Project Proposal.

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genebren — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:48:52 GMT

My son has recently become interested in starting a vending machine company, dealing in collectable cards and small art projects (books, stickers etc.). He has already purchased a few vending machines, but they are mostly limited by fixed pricing ($1.25 max). I have a token vending machine that was included in his purchase that had been stripped of all of its coin acceptors (turn knobs), which I will used to try out some more flexible approaches to pricing. I have currently purchased some programmable coin acceptors that can accept up to four different coin types, but I think it would be pretty cool to use some RFID or NFC devices that could be loaded with money and used to purchase product from the machine. I really like the RFID or NFC approach, as the machines themselves might not need to hold as much (if any) cash, which could be attractive to thieves.

My project concept is to build an interface that could accept either coins or electronic payment, while providing the user interface to display cost of item, value of coins inserted or balance of RFID/NFC device. Once a purchase is made, the interface would dispense change or adjust the balance on the RFID/NFC device and dispense the product (driving a stepper motors to operate the dispensing device).

I have been very interested in using RFID/NFC devices and this this contest and my son's interest have pushed me to applying for this contest. It would be great to Win a Free NFC RFID Kit!

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misaz — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:40:39 GMT

Because some parts of my mechanical contruction set from previous project Duratool Cabinet Storage Box Upgrade remained, I plan to make something simple with them. I have idea on making whell of luck with NFC tag used for detection of segment under reward indicator by NFC reader. All of this will be of course controlled by some MCU most probably with display output. MCU will read tags and whell star trotating it will detect it by changing tags. it would be able to detect number of segments, possibly speed of rotation, direction, etc.

Maybe I get better idea in the meantime and make something different.

I never worked with NFC tags and readers so I will have to learn this.

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dougw — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:17:14 GMT

I will be using this Project14 as an excuse to experiment with RFID. Specifically I want to see how far I can extend the reading range. Large RFID tags can be detected at over 60 CM, even as far as 2 m, but small tags might only be readable at 1 cm. I want to see if the I can extend the range of small tags using a larger reader "antenna". One reason for my interest is that tags that are implanted in pets are small, but it would be useful to read them at larger distances, especially if they are to be used for applications like access control, location tracking or food dispensing.

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tariq.ahmad — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:56:03 GMT

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