[Swansea Hackspace] Key fob suggestion/idea

[Justin Mitchell]

Well, if your going to do a checkin/checkout box then it would need to
have a status LED, preferably one with multi colours, heck just put a
neopixel there (in a pingpong ball) and be done with it. :)


Hardware wise such things are pretty trivial to make, an arduino, and
rfid reader, a neopixel, an ethernet shield or maybe wifi.

Then someone needs to work on the boring bit, writing the software to
drive it all.

My biggest concern about making such things is the practical aspects of
using them...

door / timeclock / attendance. i guess it will display a different
colour for checked in and checked out, as someone -will- forget and get
out of sync.  Report back to server, keep a log. fine.

for drinks/snacks then i guess we have to make sure its hard to
accidentally do it twice, we will then have a record of who(s keyfob)
owes what, but how do we get that money off them? its enough hassle
getting everyone to pay their subs on time.

and i'm even less sure how you are ever going to tie a keyfob swipe to
any useful part of the octoprint interface ?

 


On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 11:44 +0000, Emyr Morris wrote:
> I'm a strong believer that RFID (like Bluetooth) makes everything
> better! 
> 
> 
> the only thing that is better than either RFID and Bluetooth is
> addressable RGB LEDs... if you can incorporate addressable LEDs into
> the projects as well then you have my full blessing! I can not wait!
> 
> 
> On 8 November 2014 02:11, Graham Owens <grahamowensuk at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>         If we can organise it, would anyone be averse to having a
>         second fob issued to each member of the space, one that we can
>         use internally and have full control over to preparing us for
>         future projects.
>         
>         Examples would be, when people enter or leave the space, so
>         that it is logged, but also so we can start doing some live
>         stats on the website, such as 'there are currently "6" people
>         in the hackspace'
>         
>         A basis for a cashless vending machine for things like
>         arduinos, or snacks.
>         
>         Controls for the machine tools/3d printers etc.  once people
>         are trained on a machine it is added to their profile and
>         allows the machine to be used.
>         
>         Project box packing robot, a robot that retrieves your project
>         box when presented with your fob.
>         
>         These are obviously just suggestions, and are more for the
>         long term.  I would say use the existing fobs, but if we need
>         to move to larger space in the future then our existing fobs
>         would have to be returned and would be an administration
>         nightmare.
>         
>         In a nutshell, im proposing that we start building a framework
>         that can grow with us.
>         
>         Any comments or suggestions appreciated
>         
>         As many of you know, im all about the graphing of data and
>         would love to see more stats on the website like visits per
>         day, visits by hour, maximum at one time etc
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