Gabe’s Soup » 2007

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Ellegua, an RFID Access Control System October 28, 2007

Filed under: Technical — Tags: door opener, Ellegua, hacks, NSLU2, RC500, RFID — Gabe @ 10:11 am

My rocketry club has a door, and this door has 2 keys. There are 30 members. Needless to say this is a mess.

The answer? RFID reader (based on the RC500) + NSLU2 + Python + SQLLite + 50 MiFare Light RFID cards from Hong Kong! I christen thee Ellegua.

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And we’re back!

Filed under: Musings — Tags: intro, musing — Gabe @ 6:32 am

Finally we return from a one year hiatus of laziness and lack of time. I’m going to be posting mainly project here, but perhaps various musings as well. Stay posted.