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 <h...@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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community