Another open hardware mod experiment: RFID-tag/Reader board for the Freerunner, Nanonote (?) and Beagleboard

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 11.04.2011 um 10:13 schrieb Alex (Maxious) Sadleir:

> There's an app for Android that reads MIFARE 13.56MHz transit cards:
> https://github.com/codebutler/farebot
> The author would like to see eventually emulating such cards:
> http://codebutler.com/announcing-farebot-for-android
> I would definitely be interested in a board if it was proven it could
> read or emulate MIFARE transit tags.
> 
> 4 wire installation @
> http://chonyota.net/freerunner/FRNBv2/FRNBv2-Installation.pdf looks
> easy enough for someone like me to solder :)

Ah, this still links to the wrong file, but soldering isn't much different than described there.

> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Denis Shulyaka <shulyaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Nikolaus,
>> 
>> Great news!
>> 
>> Here in Moscow, some of the tickets to public transport are basically
>> RFID tags. Will I be able to "copy" them and use my Free Runner for it
>> with this hardware?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Denis Shulyaka.
>> 
>> 
>> 2011/4/11 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:
>>> Dear all,
>>> besides the GTA04 and the Freerunner Navigation Board,
>>> we have been working behind the scenes on a new hardware mod,
>>> originally for the Openmoko Freerunner. It is a
>>> 
>>>        RFID Antenna, RFID Tag (M24LR64) and a RFID Reader (TRF7960) board.
>>>        For 13 MHz (ISO14443, ISO15693).
>>> 
>>> The project is still in its beginnings, but the hardware is designed and
>>> first samples have been built and appear to work (at least as far as we
>>> could test them). And, a first U-Boot based driver running on a BeagleBoard
>>> has shown that the RFID reader chip responds and sends interrupts. The
>>> tag chip also works and has been tested with an external USB based reader
>>> stick.
>>> 
>>> The boards have solder points so that it should be possible to interface
>>> to different SoC and boards, e.g. BeagleBoard, Nanonote, OpenPandora...
>>> 
>>> The minimum wiring is that it nedds 3.3V power, 3 SPI wires and a INT line
>>> to a GPIO. If power should be controlled or the SoC has 1.8V I/O, more
>>> wires are needed.
>>> 
>>> For documentation and details I have uploaded some material to
>>> this page:
>>> 
>>>        http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Freerunner_RFID_Board
>>> 
>>> Schematics and board layout are available in EAGLE format.
>>> 
>>> Now, what can you do with it? I don't know but would be happy to hear
>>> about ideas...
>>> 
>>> We have the idea to sell these complete boards at 79 EUR (which
>>> is approx. half the price of a TI eval board), if you are interested in
>>> experimenting with this technology.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Nikolaus
>>> 
>>> 
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