RFID technologies covered include passive, low frequency 125KHz tags and readers, passive high frequency 13.56MHz, up to active, UHF 900Mhz tags and readers.
A word on immigration I love immigrants so much I married one! My wife is Canadian, and her immigration ordeal has been a 5+ year process. Many people think if/when a foreign person gets married to a US citizen, then citizenship is just a simple test and ceremony away. That is really not the case [...]
So the US Post Office is dang-near bankrupt, and apparently has been on a steady financial decline for over a decade. Now they are talking about reducing expenses to the tune of $3 billion by cutting jobs and services. Are you kidding me? Here’s my idea to save the USPS… inject some sanity. Step 1) [...]
UPDATE About a month ago, I got my hands on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Right out of the box, battery life REALLY sucked. I couldn’t go more than a couple hours before my 100% battery would be warning me it needed juice. In the last 30 days however, my phone has had two forced updates [...]
Even though TEDx events are generally attended by locals, for some reason I received an invite. It may have been because of all the media coverage a few years ago surrounding the RFID implants. For a time I was visiting Vancouver a whole heck of a lot and the Canadian media (TV and radio mostly) [...]
I’ve been using an OutBack Power Systems FW500 inverter system in my funky datacenter for a couple years now. So far I’ve been impressed, but one of the issues I’ve run into has to do with simply pulling power system data from the MATE via RS232 serial connection. I’ve connected the MATE to a USB [...]
When I get the gumption to build my own “dream house”, I’m going to make sure it has plenty of secret passageways and the like. I started this trend a couple years ago in my current home by simply placing a conspicuous piece of paper in a slot between two bricks in my kitchen. Observant [...]
Spied this on the floor of the bathroom and actually laughed out loud. Thanks Glamour for getting both sides of the story. What a bunch of morons.
Ever have to sort through a pile of unmarked LF EM4100/EM4102/Unique RFID tags sitting on your desk, or need to quickly determine the ID of a tag before programming it into your latest RFID project? Well, the guys over at CoreRFID were nice enough to send me one of their spiffy little USB readers. Turns [...]
I bought some goofy shoes today… the kind with all the toes broken out into individual little pockets. I saw them a couple days ago in a local sporting goods store and thought they might just help with that cramped feeling my toes have. I know you might just be thinking “get bigger shoes idiot”, [...]
Being an IT guy these days must be what it was like being a car mechanic in the 50s and 60s… before you needed seriously expensive tools and diagnostic devices that only car shops can afford now. In the IT realm, diagnostics and repair are still done with smarts, experience, and if necessary, free (usually) [...]
