Whenever I see books touting “forbidden knowledge”, I always think it’s gonna be full of a bunch of BS that pretty much anyone with a mischievous streak would already know and probably done at least once. While this book has plenty of that, it also has some topics that I didn’t expect. Here are a […]
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We’ve had some issues with home security recently, so before anything serious happens I bought a Q-See QSD2316C16-500 DVR from Costco. The system is a network DVR setup that comes with 16 cameras (8 standard + 8 wide angle) for $1000. The whole reason I looked into buying this setup is that it was cheap. […]
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Make sure your rug rat doesn’t wander off while you’re gettin your shop on.
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In a fit of frustration the other day, I broke my wallet by slamming it down on my desk. The frayed edges of my trusty old wallet couldn’t take the strain, and my credit cards, loyalty cards, and RFID cards ripped through the frail seams and went flying all over the place. The deflated little […]
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A while back I heard of this open source 2.4GHz active RFID platform called OpenBeacon. At the time I thought it was simply an open source active RFID system, which really only appealed to me because the end products might be cheap enough for broke hobbyists to play with. When time finally permitted me to […]
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On the RFID Toys forum, I’m always fielding questions about RFID basics and helping educate people about RFID applications. I also get a lot of questions about where to find cheap gear. I was hoping to be able to answer some of those questions by pointing people to www.ananiahelectronics.com. Will I be able to confidently […]
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So many people have been asking me on the RFID Toys forum for a way to use RFID to locate things. I’ve always told them two things: 1) RFID is an identifying technology, not a tracking technology… and 2) Check out the Loc8tor, a simple RFID based direction and range finding solution… but I’d never […]
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