[sudoroom] Electronic door access control

[Andrew]

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)?


On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Marc Juul <marcjc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Cool,
> >
> > Marc, do you care to take the lead on this? I'm also in.
>
> Yes I'll take the lead on this unless someone else is itching to do it?
>
> I would have suggested we set up pin + magstripe card access, since
> that means that people can register any old card from their wallet and
> also allows us to grant temporary pin-only access to visitors without
> access to the door and without additional hardware.
>
> The problem is that I'm having some trouble finding a cheap
> outdoors-resistant pin + magnet card reader. Labitat uses one of these
> https://encrypted.google.com/shopping/product/2080597187139231092 (+
> an rfid reader) that was bought cheaply on ebay, but it seems they're
> hard to find now.
>
> The best I could find was this:
>
> 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
>
> but I'm not sure we can easily interface to that.
>
> Does anyone have a suitably outdoorsy pin+card box lying around?
>
> I guess we could go with rfid only to begin with and keep costs low.
> It should be less prone to breaking as well since it can be easily
> weather proofed / hidden and has no moving parts.
>
> --
> Juul
>



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