Yeah, I would definitely vote for using RFID. Why have everyone carry around a magstripe card? is there an advantage to this over RFID, besides security (RFID is easy to clone)?<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Marc Juul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcjc@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcjc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Matthew Senate <<a href="mailto:mattsenate@gmail.com">mattsenate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Cool,<br>
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> Marc, do you care to take the lead on this? I'm also in.<br>
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</div>Yes I'll take the lead on this unless someone else is itching to do it?<br>
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I would have suggested we set up pin + magstripe card access, since<br>
that means that people can register any old card from their wallet and<br>
also allows us to grant temporary pin-only access to visitors without<br>
access to the door and without additional hardware.<br>
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The problem is that I'm having some trouble finding a cheap<br>
outdoors-resistant pin + magnet card reader. Labitat uses one of these<br>
<a href="https://encrypted.google.com/shopping/product/2080597187139231092" target="_blank">https://encrypted.google.com/shopping/product/2080597187139231092</a> (+<br>
an rfid reader) that was bought cheaply on ebay, but it seems they're<br>
hard to find now.<br>
<br>
The best I could find was this:<br>
<a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/GE-Casi-Rusco-Model-435-Magnetic-Mag-Stripe-Card-Reader-Keypad-430083501-NEW-/280737500796?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item415d424e7c" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/itm/GE-Casi-Rusco-Model-435-Magnetic-Mag-Stripe-Card-Reader-Keypad-430083501-NEW-/280737500796?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item415d424e7c</a><br>
<br>
but I'm not sure we can easily interface to that.<br>
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Does anyone have a suitably outdoorsy pin+card box lying around?<br>
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I guess we could go with rfid only to begin with and keep costs low.<br>
It should be less prone to breaking as well since it can be easily<br>
weather proofed / hidden and has no moving parts.<br>
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