Maker Faire

Build Your Own RFID Reader (Section 1)

Type: Workshop
Program Area: Robotics

Materials Fee $15

Day/Time: Saturday, April 22 1:00 PM (60 minutes)

Location: Fiesta Hall Workshop

In this Parallax workshop, you will wire up a Grand Idea Studio RFID reader on a Parallax BASIC Stamp Board, and program it as a security ID device. Each RFID tag will be scanned, stored in a memory, and read back via LCD or PC display to identify the person, object or animal which may carry the tag. Visitors will take all of the hardware with them from the workshop and be able to continue the development of the project as they see desire.

This workshop is being held at four times during the faire:

Saturday at 1:30pm
Saturday at 3:00pm
Sunday at 1:30pm
Sunday at 3:00pm

Related site: http://www.parallax.com

Presenters

Andy Lindsay, Parallax, Inc.