The project matches a PIC12F675 microcontroller to create a magnetic card reader while using track 2 data. The project matches a PIC12F675 microcontroller to create a magnetic card reader while using ...

A good magnetic card reader requires reliable and accurate performance across a variety of different environments and card swipe speeds, as well as regardless of the physical condition of the card.

Some people are, in all sincerity, too smart for their own good. Take this fellow, who MAKE reports on: Exploring my new Siemens MC 60 mobile, I discovered an interesting feature. It has the ability ...

If you’ve wiring up a microcontroller and need some kind of storage, it’s likely you’ll reach for an SD card. Compared to other ways of holding data on your project, SD cards are ...

You can find commercial USB sticks that can also connect via WiFi. But [Neutrino] made his own using an ESP8266 married to a card reader. It all starts with the old trick of soldering a header to an ...