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Geoff
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Post RFID WelcomeBox
on: August 23, 2012, 17:50
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I've started the planning on yet another project for the space. This one is an RFID 'welcome box' which will do something interesting to welcome a card-carrying member back to the space.

This is somewhat based on the gatekeeper machine at Noisebridge which plays a music clip on the intercom speaker when someone buzzes through the door using a 'general access' code. I will be prototyping the box using the Adafruit NFC shield for Arduino and will be looking into either a Wave-shield or an Ethernet-shield to facilitate the 'Welcome Action'.

Suggestions welcome!
adric
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Post Re: RFID WelcomeBox
on: August 24, 2012, 09:41
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well to get you started. we do have atleast one or two of these http://www.parallax.com/tabid/768/ProductID/114/Default.aspx they interface very nicely to arduino.

ive also got about a dozen keychain fobs and 3 or 4 credit card rfid cards. for your prototyping pleasure,

and i have a stand alone, rfid + keypad access control box (you can see in the following photos and video) https://secure.flickr.com/search/?w=58068110@N00&q=rfid that are all available for either prototyping/making this. or for Idora ideas on automating door security. (or combine the 2 ideas)

since it may have proprietary lab access details, the other thread is in the member only section of the forums.

Also sorta relevant, here is a nice design (we could use the front window similarly)
http://hackaday.com/2012/08/22/no-secret-knocks-required-at-steves-house-your-subway-pass-will-do/

-Quelab, Come make something!

Geoff
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Post Re: RFID WelcomeBox
on: August 24, 2012, 17:12
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Shiny! Thanks Adric! (randomly, the guy who designed the Parallax unit will be at ABQMMF)

So far I've been thinking about having the box read a random line out of a fortune file every time you tag in, so I've been looking for TTS shields for Arduino. So far I found this https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10661 at Sparkfun.

I may have gone overboard in getting Adafruit's RFID prototyping shield https://www.adafruit.com/products/789 but we'll see when the package comes in.
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Post Re: RFID WelcomeBox
on: August 24, 2012, 18:31
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yah the adafruit is likely overkill, but might be fun to have to play with nfc when a few ofus have phones or tags with the stuff.

-Quelab, Come make something!

adric
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Post Re: RFID WelcomeBox
on: August 29, 2012, 10:49
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So you mentioned a voice shield. I really hope it can be made to sound like Joshua from "WarGames"!

-Quelab, Come make something!

Geoff
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Post Re: RFID WelcomeBox
on: April 12, 2013, 10:41
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So while dinking around the Sparkfun site, I came across this video on their YouTube channel.

http://youtu.be/eSUHuc6JRww

If only we didn't have to go through four keyed units on three doors! We could cut the iron key out and go RFID...
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