Felix wrote: > I don't like the idea of smart-card reading with microcontroller,
I don't quite understand the role of the smart card there. It seems that the MCU also contains secrets (keys), so they would both have to be "trusted" ? That seems a bit odd. It seems to depend on USB for power, so it won't work for offline use (at ATMs, etc.) Also, the Arduinism is getting a little boring and it means that they won't have room to do much in that device. Maybe they'll do something interesting with the protocol architecture, though. Seems that everybody is using HID to escape USB driver hell of legacy systems these days, and it'll be interesting to see if somebody finds a way to use this interface without requiring native code. I.e., "On the software side, we’ll ‘only’ need to write a simple script running on the users’ browsers." [1] According to [2], there is no easy solution for this. [1] http://hackaday.com/2013/12/06/developed-on-hackaday-lets-build-some-hardware/ [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15535409/write-data-to-usb-hid-using-javascript-html5-or-any-cross-platform-language-s - Werner _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
