We have been making a lot of prototypes with the Innovations ID12 RFID readers in the past few months. We’ve been getting them from the super-helpful Core RFID, and now Sparkfun is selling them.
The ID12s measure just 25mm x 26mm and include their own antenna. They are great because they are packaged in a form that is very adaptable to many prototyping needs, including inside a toy dog’s nose.
Sparkfun have designed their own breakout board for the ID12 which should make connecting it easier in the future.
Update Tom Igoe’s latest book Making things talk includes lots of details about getting an ID12 to work with Arduino and processing code.
Related things:
- Sonmicro RFID Processing library Last year we made a Processing library for the Sonmicro SM130 RFID read/write module together with Jørn Knutsen and Tom Igoe. The SM130 is a little module that lets you read and write to......
- RFID form factors As our interaction design students get deeper into prototyping with RFID, we needed to start looking at the range of possibilities around the materials and forms of RFID tags. Last week we created a......
- Making things talk Tom Igoe’s new book Making things talk arrived today, full of lovely projects and code examples. Tom’s previous book Physical computing has been the definitive reference for all hardware hacking that goes on......
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Beside SparkFun, is there other source where I can puchase 2 units for my project? SparkFun is out of stock now.
Yep, http://www.rfidshop.com is also very good and helpful.
Does anyone know a simple interface circuit? Maybe a simple rs232 type to say, PIC? Thanks
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