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I would probably hold off on the butt chip. Why not get an optical viewer and train it to understand when you need help with the door?
A button at floor level that you can press with your foot is probably more practical.
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
I think that story deserves a little elaboration.
EDIT: Wow, this is apparently a thing. [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)#Hobb...
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
Wait, sorry... what?! You had an RFID chip implanted in your hand??? I think that story deserves a little elaboration. EDIT: Wow, this is apparently a thing. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)#Hobb...
It shows real commitment to the tech. And also, it looks cool when you can make machines do stuff with just a wave of your hand. Sorcery!
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
My co-worker solves by unlocking the front door when the home server sees his phone's (and his wife's phone's) MAC address on the home wi-fi network. (But only during "waking hours" so the server doesn't leave the door unlocked when everyone is sleeping.)
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One interesting use: https://vimeo.com/157990864 This library lets visitors rearrange the books organically (if you pull out multiple books on a topic, you're encouraged to put them back on the shelf together instead of finding their old homes). The books are tracked with RFID so that they remain easy to find individually.
I'm a frequent library user, and this may be fine for certain types of collections (where you look for very specific books) but is terrible for general use, as you are removing the ability to search by topic.
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
> I could activate an automatic door opener by bumping into it when I have my hands full. My co-worker solves by unlocking the front door when the home server sees his phone's (and his wife's phone's) MAC address on the home wi-fi network. (But only during "waking hours" so the server doesn't leave the door unlocked when everyone is sleeping.)
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
This story doesn't quite make sense. I believe that his RSA pass was clonable and that his towel also had an RFID chip embedded in it. What I find hard to believe is that the towel had a writable RFID tag. My main experience with RFID is cloning tags onto T5557 chips, and I don't think I've ever come across a writable tag in the wild. It doesn't seem to make economic sense to spend an extra penny or two on every towe…
Turns out they didnt lock the tables' tags, so you could write urls and when people placed their phones down, had those urls open. (they used the tags for their food pager system)