want to build data logger

I want to learn about programming micro chips but cannot figure out where to start. I want to program a device that gets its input from a serial RFID Proximity ID Identification ... on boards. Are all of the add on boards able to be used with any of the development boards. I need a basic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 21:11:22

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RFID and me

Look, ma! My hands! I’ve been fuddling with RFID and an arduino board off-and-on for the past week and so far, this is my accomplishment. Each chip keeps a separate identification number, and lights up a specific LED that is attached to the breadboard. The plan is to embed the RFID tags in strategic places on a pair of kid’s pyjamas [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 08:26:00

Yvio: RFID Board Games (For Real)

The German company Public Solution has produced five RFID based games, published under the name Yvio, including Elefant, Tiger, and Co., Octago (by Reiner Knizia), Thinx, FreiBeuter Der Karibik, and Tarascon, with another game on the way. The games’ boards not only detect and identify pieces, but can generate random values and save game [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 13:49:56

Printed Circuit Board Tracking with RFID

Omnitrol Networks and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) developed a radio frequency identification (RFID) ... integration appliance, Gen 2 RFID readers and Texas Instruments' RFID Gen 2 UHF chips. The off-the-shelf ... -floor management. The manufacturing pedigree information is automatically programmed into the RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 11:49:28

Electronic World of ELatec

We truly want you to visit Elatec if you are looking for electronic products like RFID Readers, Loyalty Cards, Smart Cards and Industrial Computing, ... and serves various other countries through a network of distributors. Elatec develops RFID readers as modules, OEM boards, PC cards and as complete devices in housing. The product spectrum ranges [more...]

Date: 2008-06-03 04:27:56

Old Fastrak transponder design

While riding my bike, I saw the this board in the street.  It looked like a Fastrak transponder so I picked it up. There are a couple interesting notes.  The board is labeled “TIRIS” (Texas Instruments RFID ... chip instead of the TI MSP430 now in use.  They probably moved to the MSP430 to save money [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 16:36:00

Air New Zealand improving flight experience

I was invited by Air New Zealand to attend a press event in Auckland where they showed their vision of an update airport check-in area, ... directy from your phone and board the aircraft. Also new is the RFID tag, a sticker that will be sent ... a Priority label if you are entitled to it. And speaking of kiosks and airports, the main centres [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 01:02:00

Investor Profile: HO2 Partners

Charles Humphreyson, General Partner, HO2 Partners In 1985 Charlie and two associates founded Contact Software, the developer of the ACT! ... firms, helping to build strong syndicates and cohesive portfolio company boards. HO2's first fund ... platform for RFID applications. The company offers a suite of software solutions that track products [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 01:40:24

Oled, ebooks, smart surfaces, and an ancient Egyptian PC

BERLIN, August 29, Pictured here is the 31in AMOled screen unveiled by Samsung today, surrounded by 14in models ... , an electronic Scrabble board. Each scrabble tile and each position, on the board has an RFID module [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 17:35:16

VSLive! New York

VSLive! New York I have been selected to present two sessions at VSLive! New York this September ... devices, including an RFID reader and tags, Phidget control boards with a variety of sensors ... , demonstrating how to connect to a USB or Bluetooth HID device and use it from .NET, with examples [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 21:27:56

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Veera changed this page on Wed Sep 03 11:39:59 EEST 2008: At line 39 added 7 lines. ---- -avs: me, too ... . No other RFIDs but the same error message every time while boarding the tram on Monday and Tuesday this week. -- Veera|http://palamaailmaani.net , 03-Sep-2008 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 08:39:59

Confusing Results

After re-reading various pieces of information provided by Augustus Martin, the previous designs are null and void ... has been conducted looked at QR tags and RFID as well as different reactive materials and so far ... Presentation Boards November 16, 2008 — A New QR Direction November 10, 2008 — More Problems [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 18:09:10

post info

02Jan09 goin’ even more green By tjwsmum Categories: Family, Frugal/Freebies and Personal I am SUCH  a nerd ... me with a “large 95 gallon wheeled recycling cart equipped with an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag ... !   Like what, you might ask?  Well, corrugated cardboard, chip board from boxes such as cereal, pop, shoe [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 00:58:47

Made in Japan - Volume 20

This week: Cological Contraption Set, AeroSpider - Wall Walking RC Car, Meta-Ultraman: Ultraman Made Out of Smaller Ultramen, OLLO DIY Robot Kit, ... House, Microcontroller Boards 'R' Us: MicroFan, Fake Watches by Mint House, LED Grow Lights, and PingMag's RFID Aesthetics. MIJ20.png Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Made [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 07:10:35

Back

We arrived at JFK a little less than an hour ago. Seven hour flight from London Hethrow Airport this morning to JFK ... . Around 4 hours from now we get to board a flight to Ohio, and then a flight after that to Vegas ... to use. It has a RFID chip in it and you just scan as you go in and out and it dings your balance [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 16:47:49

Video: Tiny hands-on with Swinxs

Filed under: Gaming, Wireless When this Swinxs RFID game console arrived at the doorstep of our European annex to test, we realized our dilemma: ... " scrounging for circuit boards to strip of their gold. Presumably then, in violation of several international [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 11:43:00

Hey BART - why keep pushing EZ Rider when Translink is coming soon?

A lot of people today complain that BART's trains are a little dirtier, the employees are overpaid, the BART board is a bunch of nutjobs, ... ... so the EZ rider pilot program was the genius idea of BART officials to give RFID fare cards to passengers ... over.Even after installation of new BART vending machines and gates, the plastic fare cards still [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 06:07:00

Insecure by design

Would you design a system which you know is vulnerable to hacking?  However, the fact is that secure systems do cost more than their non-secure ( ... an RFID-based cards used for prepaying highway tolls in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the barcode based system used by the National Library Board in Singapore. Both systems can be easily broken [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 08:19:07

News 10/29/08

From Houndoggie: “Re: UCI. The Eclipsys install got pushed again at UC-Irvine Med Center and the first casualty was Joy Grosser, long-time CIO. No word yet on what is going to happen. Jim Murry was brought back in the interim spot.” Unverified. I’m happy to run either confirmation or correction, whichever is appropriate [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 01:06:43

NanoNews

David RejeskiDirectorProject on Emerging Nanotechnologies Abstract:The National Research Council (NRC), which carries out studies for the U.S. National Academies, released a report in December that highlights the significant shortfalls of the Bush administration in identifying and addressing the environment, health and safety (EHS) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 11:33:00

NanoMas Pulls in Big Name Investor for Nano-ink

NanoMas Technologies, a startup that is developing inks containing silver nanoparticles for solar and other applications, ... could be used for printable solar cells and flexible and flat panel displays, as well as RFID tags ... , the technology is ideal for printing electronics on temperature-sensitive materials, including paper and plastics [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 20:07:06

News 2008.07.10

Cambridge Consultants XAP5 Core Sets New Standard for 16-Bit Processors Cambridge Consultants has launched its next generation XAP processor core - ... with a 24-bit address space for large programs up to 16 Mbytes. Intel Sells UHF RFID Reader Chip Operation ... Business Initiatives (NBI) incubator and which developed the award-winning R1000 RFID reader [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 17:13:44

Types of Label Printers

by Mary Bush Label printers use a wide range of label materials, including paper and synthetic polymer materials ... variety of materials. Thermal label printers are mostly used for bar code printing because ... has the ability to produce exact bar widths that successful bar code printing and scanning require. Each [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 14:00:06

Chapter Fifteen Excerpts: Peer Production and the Crisis of Value

Sometime in the next few weeks, I expect to have drafts of the last two chapters of my organization theory manuscript, Fifteen and Sixteen, online. From there, it will simply be a matter of working through the backlog of reading to fill in the gaps in the earlier chapters, polishing them up, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 22:04:00

Debate Notes

Thanks to all the awesome people we met at the CFI debate for coming out to see us! Will was fantastically prepared and was a superb part of the debate, and it was great to meet Sheiban and our many supporters from JREF and CFI. CFI Ontario has been rather slow to put up video of the debate and I know that’s what people are eager to see, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 02:32:00

Types of Label Printers

by Mary Bush Label printers use a wide range of label materials, including paper and synthetic polymer materials ... Printers, Industrial Portable Label Printers, RFID readers, Label printer applicators, Label software ... for many common bar code printing applications like shipping labels, patient and visitor identification [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 08:56:20

BOCC meeting Monday - 2 zoning items

The County Commissioners are meeting Monday (the agenda is originally posted at www.co.durham.nc.us).  There are two zoning items, one north of RTP and the other is probably in north Durham.  If the consent item about lighting at Hillside and Northern highs is outdoors, I hope they are taking light pollution into consideration, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 07:06:00

From Branding to Library Closures, Learn and Share at November’s Webinars

October 29, 2008 at 7:18 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged community, digital, free, marketing, technology, webinar, ... why libraries close and what you can do to prevent your own library closure? You can learn more about all these topics in WebJunction’s November lineup of free webinars. Branding Libraries [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 19:18:49

Ski Season Is Here!! Great Time for Using ICE

Whether you are going downhill on skis, boards or any winter sport or you are managing a ski resort operation, using ICE has never made more sense! ... passes. You can even integrate ICE into your ski pass system using 2D Barcodes or RFID and scanners [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 12:13:00

CYBRA’s EdgeMagic Replaces IBM RFID Software Solution at Shop-Vac

YONKERS, New York - October 23, 2008 - CYBRA Corporation (OTC BB: CYRP.OB) ... readers, and Zebra RFID printers, the same hardware as WebSphere RFID Premises Server so by replacing ... , the developer of award-winning MarkMagic™ Bar Code Labels, RFID Tags, and Electronic Forms [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 21:08:41

Logan's Prox Talker AAC Device

Logan's Prox Talker is an AAC device designed for students who efficiently use PECS (Picture Exchange Communication). The basic idea is that the device replaces a sentence strip at the bottom of a PECS book. The symbols in the PECS book have embedded RFID (radio frequency ID). The device automatically detects [more...]

Date: 2008-10-19 02:03:36

Rapid Wireless Technology, Signal Detection and Estimation, Understanding Microwaves, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Analog Circuits, Video Processing

Wireless Technology Protocols, Standards, and Techniques, The book, divided into five parts, describes protocols, standards, and techniques for 2G and 3G technologies, including those specific to wireless multimedia.The book is suitable as text as well as a reference [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 04:02:00

RFID on Printed Circuit Boards

PCBs are usually labelled with barcodes or 2D code labels in order to identify ... . 4. TAG: A TAG is a complete RFID transponder with chip and antenna, and usually sealed in a housing ... is defective, the PCB can also be discarded! However, it is beneficial that the RFID transponder [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 08:36:14

Survey of LinkedIn Network members asks: What's the most significant customer service technology breakthrough?

I recently asked the LinkedIn network "What's the most significant customer service breakthrough you've seen in your time, from a technology standpoint? Is it your CRM? Workforce management? Quality monitoring? E-Learning? Web Chat? Google Services?" As a testament to the power of social networking, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 20:50:00

Rapid Wireless Technology, Signal Detection and Estimation, Understanding Microwaves, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Analog Circuits, Video Processing

Wireless Technology Protocols, Standards, and Techniques, The book, divided into five parts, describes protocols, standards, and techniquesfor 2G and 3G technologies, including those specific to wireless multimedia.The book is suitable as text as well as a reference [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 04:02:00

Electronic products

Electronic products Published on August 21st, 2008 by admin Quality electronic components are vital for electronic equipments to work efficiently ... . Electronic components, RFID, Security solutions, Cards, & services are its main business units [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 17:51:31

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Sunday, November 16, 2008

If you listened to the weather forecast, you had either taken you own life or planned to wake up and shovel snow ... which has their offices at 917 State St. Representative John Dingell of Michigan, Chairman [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 15:09:21

New boards from BatchPCB

 I got two new designs in from BatchPCB. This first one is a breakout board for the 12 Channel Lassen IQ GPS Receiver ... design is one I have been cultivating over the summer. It is a RFID door security system based around ... at the end of the summer. rfid_brd [more...]

Date: 2008-07-26 03:06:42

$20,000 Passive RFID RTLS system – who’s buying?

$20,000 Passive RFID RTLS system – who’s buying? Patrick J ... in a 100,000 warehouse using passive RFID has been a end-user dream since EPC was first introduced by our own ... in 15 minutes with Ansel Adams quality? Last week on one of the online RFID boards a user bragged [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 19:34:43

A Passage to India

In 1605 Joseph Jacobs wrote a story titled Dick Whittington’s Cat, ... is such that many universities are now starting to embed RFID chips in their diplomas to prevent [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 10:22:49

Gift Guide Part 2: Mile High Club

For the Frequent Flyer who calculates air time in mileage, not minutes, ... calculator, voice recorder, and eight travel games. 9. The newest U.S. Passports include RFID tags [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 18:19:26

xFruits - 21st Century Regenerative Technology - 7 new items

21st Century Regenerative Technology 1. Flywheels: A Tech That's Just Spinning Its Wheels? 2 ... , as revenue fell to $4,000 from $373,000. And the news came after Active Power Inc., which makes flywheels [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 04:57:00

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