Gabe's Soup http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net Projects and Musings from Gabe's World Tue, 20 May 2008 23:04:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Conversation Snippet http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/2007/11/06/conversation-snippet/ http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/2007/11/06/conversation-snippet/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:40:41 +0000 Gabe http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/2007/11/06/conversation-snippet/ (23:11:06) Me: and didn’t get let into a bar because….
(23:11:31) Me: we went the wrong way down a one way street, taxis swerving around us, in a dumptster on wheels, and parked the dumpster in front of the bar
(23:11:36) Me: and the doorman was like
(23:11:40) Me: “You can’t come in”
(23:11:43) Me: and we were like “why”
(23:11:50) Me: and he was like “…because you came here in a dumpster”

]]> http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/2007/11/06/conversation-snippet/feed/ Ellegua, an RFID access control system (work in progress). http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/2007/10/28/ellegua-an-rfid-access-control-system/ http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/2007/10/28/ellegua-an-rfid-access-control-system/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:11:39 +0000 Gabe http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/2007/10/28/ellegua-an-rfid-access-control-system/ 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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]]> http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/2007/10/28/ellegua-an-rfid-access-control-system/feed/ And we’re back! http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/2007/10/28/and-were-back/ http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/2007/10/28/and-were-back/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:32:52 +0000 Gabe http://gabe.squirrelsoup.net/?p=3 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.

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