In what must be one of the quickest ‘Hello world’ experiences, the Phidgets RFID reader was up and running on OS X in about 2 minutes after unpackaging. Phidgets must be congratulated for making such accessible and immediate physical computing hardware and software.

A simple Cocoa application reading RFID serial numbers, and playing with RFID tags obscured by metal objects. Having multiple, numerous readers around gives us the ability to quickly play around with objects, spaces and tags: understanding the range, directionality and responsiveness of RFID.

1 September 2006 by Timo