Please my team and i wish to do a magnetic stripe card reader. The project is to do magnetic ID card for school student that will uniquely identify them. Did some researchs but still haven't understood the concepts behind it.
What kind of school is this?Please my team and i wish to do a magnetic stripe card reader. The project is to do magnetic ID card for school student that will uniquely identify them. Did some researchs but still haven't understood the concepts behind it.
It is a private school so what will be done will not be out of the borders and it will not be much like the credit cardWhat kind of school is this?
What you want to build, can easily become a credit card skimmer...
I'm out!
Both but i will like to build a card reader an build the software myself. And buy a card writer.Your question does not have any details. Are you asking about buying a card reader and writing a program to interpret the data, or building a card reader from scratch, or what?
ak
AFAIK: magnetic stripe cards are being slowly phased out.Please my team and i wish to do a magnetic stripe card reader. The project is to do magnetic ID card for school student that will uniquely identify them. Did some researchs but still haven't understood the concepts behind it.
Both but i will like to build a card reader an build the software myselfYour question does not have any details. Are you asking about buying a card reader and writing a program to interpret the data, or building a card reader from scratch, or what?
ak
I love this Idea. Tell more or give links.AFAIK: magnetic stripe cards are being slowly phased out.
Nowadays chipped smart cards are sinking in price to about the same level.
Elektor magazine was fairly active on the topic of smart cards as far back as the 90s, but I don't recall seeing much on it recently.
One problem is Elektor has pulled out of news stand distribution in the UK, I didn't want to take out a subscription, so I wait until the new year and catch up when they release the whole year DVD.
That's pretty much all I know, it was something to read at the time but I didn't get into it hands on.Both but i will like to build a card reader an build the software myself
I love this Idea. Tell more or give links.
Some of the older very basic ones used a read head virtually identical to a cassette player/recorder head, in a pinch you could experiment with one of these, all you need is to interface the output to a suitable IC and serialize it, this is all that was used originally.Both but i will like to build a card reader an build the software myself
There's usually a tape guide "fence" spot welded to the side of a cassette head - they don't always pry off without wrecking the whole thing.Some of the older very basic ones used a read head virtually identical to a cassette player/recorder head, in a pinch you could experiment with one of these, all you need is to interface the output to a suitable IC and serialize it, this is all that was used originally.
Max.
A Dremel with a cut-off disc will do it!There's usually a tape guide "fence" spot welded to the side of a cassette head - they don't always pry off without wrecking the whole thing.
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A couple of decades ago I could just go to the local computer scrap breaker and have my choice of any number of stripe readers.A Dremel with a cut-off disc will do it!
Max.
There may be a few reasons for the OP wanting to wind his own, academic purposes, financial, plus he mentions he is in a country that has a dearth of latest technology!I guess now they're so scarce - it might be worth that much trouble to build one.
If you're that desperate to resurrect ancient technology.
Market forces are tending to push prices up for magnetic strip and down for chip.There may be a few reasons for the OP wanting to wind his own, academic purposes, financial, plus he mentions he is in a country that has a dearth of latest technology!
Max.
I die your idea of making chips, just because i like to know what is new and seek deep. If stripes are not affordable, then i will afford chips but as maxheadroom said. In my country just a little even know that magnetic card uses magnetic stripes. Don't worry about my country.Market forces are tending to push prices up for magnetic strip and down for chip.
Must be a really disadvantaged country - we're being swamped by immigrants from little known former eastern block countries - many of whom are attaching fake fronts to cash point machines and skimming everyone's cards. A camera in the top records the PIN being entered, and the fake mechanism takes the card and doesn't give it back.
Really gratefulThere are quite a few utube videos and articles on making one with a $5 head reader and arduino etc.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-your-Arduino-into-a-Magnetic-Card-Reader/
Max.
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