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[AJB2K3]

There's a series of model kits that are coming out with RFID chips (circuits) imbedded in parts that connect it to a game. As the Japanese hardware is not available in the UK (and probubly never will) how do I go about getting a pc based solution to this problems.

[Dan Morphis]

There's a series of model kits that are coming out with RFID chips (circuits) imbedded in parts that connect it to a game.
As the Japanese hardware is not available in the UK (and probubly never will) how do I go about getting a pc based solution to this problems.

The first thing you have to identify is what freq does the RFID chip work at? A lot of your proximity cards are either 125 kHz or 13.56 MHz. If the tags your trying to read work at either of those frequencies, then you are probably in luck. The next thing you need to figure out is what is stored on the RFID chips? Is it a simple 16 byte chunk of data? Or is it a 1k block? How does the particular RFID chip encode the data?

Once you figure those things out, you can more than likely find an off-the-shelf chip to read the RFID chip. Then its a simple matter of buying the chip and either wiring it up to a Netduino/Arduino to do any processing that maybe needed, or outputing it to serial and reading it on your PC via a serial->usb converter. All the RFID chips I've dealt with output straight serial.

-dan

[AJB2K3]

Thanks, the problem is that little to no information is known about it and mine is some ware in transit.
this is the only image I can find on it
http://farm8.staticf...7932cdb58_m.jpg
I'm assuming that its just going to contain a number!
would there be some way to scan it to see what frequency it's running at

Sorry I'm yet to find out how RFID works so sorry I'm acting dumb!