[General] RFID help

[Faye Lynn Thompson]

Wow, y'all are already being so helpful.

This started as an add on to my daughter's FIRST Lego League robotics team project.  The team is trying to use RFID to find misplaced items without the need to replace batteries.  The one we have is too short range, but it is a good way to learn we hope.
We have this one...
https://www.parallax.com/StoreSearchResults/tabid/768/List/0/SortField/4/ProductID/517/Default.aspx?txtSearch=rfid+usb

It is built/designed by Grand Idea Studio....
http://www.grandideastudio.com/portfolio/rfid-reader/

I think the usb port is an add on to the board from FTDI chip
http://www.ftdichip.com/index.html
but I'm not sure which driver to use.

We are using my early 2009 macbook pro and osx 10.8.2 because it's portable.  We have windows 7 available on other machines and dual boot on the laptop.   Just to make it trickier we'd like to be able to compile the code on a friends linux machine too.

I suspect part of our problem is just not being able to make time to get it our brains wrapped around it.  Now we'd like to have something that looks nice for the teams display at state competition on Jan 12th in Huntsville. 

Thank You so much already
Faye Lynn

p.s.  You are all invited to the state competition.  Dates are still a little fuzzy but it will be in Huntsville.  Jan 12th or 19th at Huntsville High or Grissom
http://alabamafll.org


On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:36 PM, Arthur <Arthur at cd-net.net> wrote:

> That sounds like a fun project.  Could you give me some details about it.  Does the reader use a virtual serial port?  If so, I would suggest pySerial.  The other question is what do you want to do with it?  There are so many great ideas for RFID.  Which one are you looking at?
> 
> Arthur Moore
> 
> On Friday, December 28, 2012, Faye Lynn Thompson wrote:
> My daughter and I are trying  to get a usb RFID reader to work and look good doing it.  We can get it to read and display the tags in a monitor / shell window.  (ugly but it works)  We'd like to do something in python.  So far we have lots of bits and pieces of code, but are having trouble getting it all together.
> 
> Any advice, urls, etc you can throw our way would be great.
> 
> Thanks
> Faye Lynn
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