I've been lurking here for the last few weeks but haven't introduced myself yet. I'm one of the partners in Indie Desk, a space that we've just opened in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles.
I built out our keycard system using John Arclight's Arduino-based open-access-control board, which he designed for the 23b hacker space in Fullerton. http://code.google.com/p/open-access-control/ Total build-out including cards, reader and hardware for a swinging, glass storefront door was under $1000, and would have been cheaper if I had had the time to order an offbrand reader from Hong Kong. Now that the core system is up and running, my next step is to build out a management GUI that allows cards to be associated with accounts and tracks back to our main database. That's a project that I'm intending to open-source if anyone if anyone is interested. -- Eric Richardson Indie Desk: Community...one desk at a time http://indiedesk.com On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski <[email protected]>wrote: > re: swipe cards. > > I get the impression that they were talking about access to the > building not wifi. If cobot had a plug and play solution for keycard/ > rfid electronic access that tracked that a member came in now THAT > would change my life. > Also, I'd be able to program the door locks to be open and closed at > certain hours AND control building entry-ways with a droid phone app, > I'd about die of pleasure. > > Angel > > On Jun 10, 4:19 am, Alexander Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > > an alternative to using swipe cards can be to put a login form on your > > wifi. people who want to use the wifi then have to log in before they > > can access the internet, and this also allows you to track attendance. > > cobot conveniently supports that :) > > > > cheers, > > alex > > > > On Jun 9, 4:09 pm, Bianca Rico <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm pretty sure weve discussed this topic a couple of times, but in > > > case, I was wondering if any larger coworking spaces use swipe card > > > systems like you would use in a gym, in order to track members usage. > > > We are looking into this as we have 80 shared members and growing and > we > > > think this will help us keep track. Asking members to track themselves > > > just wont work for us in this case. > > > > > -- > > > Sincerely, > > > Bianca Rico > > > Client Services > > > MiamiShared.com > > > Tel: 305-929-8688, ext. 143 > > > Fax: 305-397-1250http://www.miamishared.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
