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Jeremy Blum

Jeremy is an Electrical and Computer Engineering Student at Cornell University. He has been building microcontroller projects since high school, from a prototype prosthetic hand with a novel control scheme, to a nerf gun that fires at the intruders and uploads their picture to the web.

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e14 Contributor over 15 years ago

Love your tutorials Jeremy, If you or someone could help me, i can't seem to wrap my head around the darn arduino code. I want to make a remote control bot with my two xbees and arduino's. i have two thumb joysticks and want to control two dc motors via PWM. I'm willing to pay someone to write code for me. Lemme know & we'll work out the specifics.. beallen99@ yahoo.com
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e14 Contributor over 15 years ago

Hi Jeremy,

Good day there and do hope you're keeping well.

I just wanted to ask if you can advice me as to how I might be able to program Arduino to interact with an RFID Tag and ask it to trigger an action i.e: an email to open, a video to play, a sound to listen, when it is read by a reader?

Is that possible with the Arduino?

I have gotten my hands on several of these materials from Sparkfun.com (but could not really find the accurate resource just yet to program it):
1. RFID tags within the range of 125 kHz (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9417)
2. RFID USB Reder (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8852)
3. RFID ID-20 Reader (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8628)
4. Arduino Uno

Any advice you might be able to provide would be invaluable and I thank you in advance.

With thanks,
Cnec
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e14 Contributor over 15 years ago in reply to sciguy14

Thanks Jeremy. Looking forward to see your video. Good day you have.
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e14 Contributor over 15 years ago in reply to sciguy14

Hi Jeremy,

RE your video which is coming next week, which RFID reader and Arduino modules will you be using?

Regards
S.W.
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dragonfly.67 over 15 years ago in reply to sciguy14

Thanks a lot Jeremy. Do you know, where I can get the "Arduino Stackable Headers" with extralong pins here in Switzerland? I could not find anything like that at http://ch.farnell.com, nor at any other electronic component retailer here in switzerland.
These Female Headers where not included with the Farnell Article 1848696 (Arduino Protoshield). Neither the ICSP Connector to bring it up to the protoshield was included.

Regards, Nelson
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sciguy14 over 15 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

I don't have time to write the code for you, but if you start attempting to work through it, I can try to provide guidance when something goes wrong.
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sciguy14 over 15 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

I'll have a tutorial on read RFID tags in the coming weeks. In the meanwhile, this tutorial might be useful: http://www.cooking-hacks.com/index.php/documentation/tutorials/arduino-rfid It's not specifically for your parts, but you can probably extrapolate the info you need.
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sciguy14 over 15 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

It won't be next week, but soon. I'll be using this: http://www.cooking-hacks.com/index.php/arduino-rfid-module-18.html
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sciguy14 over 15 years ago in reply to dragonfly.67

I've only found them here: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10007
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e14 Contributor over 15 years ago in reply to sciguy14

Thanks Jeremy, I shall look forward to your RFID tutorial in the coming weeks then. Thanks for the link at cookinghacks.com too.

Sincerely,
Cnec
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