[Noisebridge-discuss] clipper card hacking

[T]

>> Anyone interested in doing some hacking on the clipper card?  I'm not
>> interested in free trips, but I would like to do things like read my
>> card, understand how it works, get to the root cause of why it is
>> slow, etc.

> Can you hack my clipper card to not fail to read 50% of the time? I swear I
> just place the card down on the reader and leave it there, but there's still
> a 50/50 chance that it'll read or not. Never had this problem with my
> ezrider bart card.

Slowness and read failure may be related- i.e. retries.

Perhaps you could add a little antenna system that couples a pair of
high-gain antennas to direct the signal a little better.  Or use a
shield so the card receives more of the energy transmitted and the
background radio noise is blocked and the station doesn't have to pick
your card's signal out of the ambient radio noise.  Perhaps even a
piece of tin foil would help.  That would certainly be a cheap thing
to test.

T