[Noisebridge-discuss] self-powered RFID reader

[Dr. Jesus]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:19 PM, singclarity
<have.fun.chosen.one at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey noisebridge,
>
> I am helping a friend start using rfid animal tags. We are using 125kHz
> (LF) RFID tags, and we were wondering whether anyone knows of any
> self-powered (i.e. handheld) rfid readers that we can carry around that
> are also not hideously expensive. Also, if those rfid readers were also
> writers that would be perfect, but does anyone know of any cheap rfid
> writers out there as well? The writers do not have to be self-powered.

Try the sonmicro SM125 devices.  They read and write.  They're cheap,
but if you buy direct there's a minimum $100 order quantity.