[Noisebridge-discuss] seeking donation of RFID reader equipment

[Jake]

i saw it the other day.  its on a shelf.

but we want a longer range UHF one i think.

On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Jeff Tchang wrote:

> At one point I donated an RFID reader to noisebridge. It was sitting in a
> brown paper bag on one of the shelves. Who knows what happened to it.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>       tl;dr:
>       buy noisebridge a 900 MHz RFID tag reader;  tags are only 8
>       cents at mouser and we need to tag all our tools (and people can
>       tag their stuff too)
>
>       I mentioned a while ago that Mouser has RFID tags for 8 cents
> 
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2012-October/0332
>       03.html
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>       and that we need an RFID reader:
> 
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2012-October/0332
>       11.html
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>       I am hoping someone can donate a reader so that we can tag items
>       at noisebridge to prevent shrinkage of critical infrastructure.
>
>       for example, we have no drills.  They all walked.  We have no
>       basic tools (it looks like we have tools, but they are just
>       piles of the least-useful ones) in the shop.
>
>       I don't think it makes sense to get another drill until we have
>       a way to protect it from being stolen again.
>
>       we will have lots of fun coding stuff to decide what to do when
>       tags are detected in the doorway area;  announcing in booming
>       Consenso voice that a particular item is in the doorway, taking
>       a flash photo of the theif, etc..
>
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