Week 6: Input Devices
Need to restrict access to your table? fear not. use an rfid sensor!
Swipe Identifier
This week, I wanted to work with RFID sensors–they just seemed cool, and I keep thinking about the Flipper Zero, which is an adorable RFID cloner. The materials I used to make the swipe identifier were:
- ESP32-Mini
- RFID-RC522
- Breadboard
- Pin to Pin wires
- OLED display
- Arduino IDE
To work with the rfid sensors, after wiring up the sensor with the correct pin out, you can use your microcontroller and the IDE to write/read the data from the chip. To write to the chip, use the code below. To read, you can select what data you want to access and then display.
/*
* Write personal data of a MIFARE RFID card using a RFID-RC522 reader*/
#include
#include
#define RST_PIN 27 // Configurable, see typical pin layout above
#define SS_PIN 5 // Configurable, see typical pin layout above
MFRC522 mfrc522(SS_PIN, RST_PIN); // Create MFRC522 instance
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600); // Initialize serial communications with the PC
SPI.begin(); // Init SPI bus
mfrc522.PCD_Init(); // Init MFRC522 card
Serial.println(F("Write personal data on a MIFARE PICC "));
}
void loop() {
// Prepare key - all keys are set to FFFFFFFFFFFFh at chip delivery from the factory.
MFRC522::MIFARE_Key key;
for (byte i = 0; i < 6; i++) key.keyByte[i] = 0xFF;
// Reset the loop if no new card present on the sensor/reader. This saves the entire process when idle.
if ( ! mfrc522.PICC_IsNewCardPresent()) {
return;
}
// Select one of the cards
if ( ! mfrc522.PICC_ReadCardSerial()) {
return;
}
Serial.print(F("Card UID:")); //Dump UID
for (byte i = 0; i < mfrc522.uid.size; i++) {
Serial.print(mfrc522.uid.uidByte[i] < 0x10 ? " 0" : " ");
Serial.print(mfrc522.uid.uidByte[i], HEX);
}
Serial.print(F(" PICC type: ")); // Dump PICC type
MFRC522::PICC_Type piccType = mfrc522.PICC_GetType(mfrc522.uid.sak);
Serial.println(mfrc522.PICC_GetTypeName(piccType));
byte buffer[34];
byte block;
MFRC522::StatusCode status;
byte len;
Serial.setTimeout(20000L) ; // wait until 20 seconds for input from serial
// Ask personal data: Family name
Serial.println(F("Type Family name, ending with #"));
len = Serial.readBytesUntil('#', (char *) buffer, 30) ; // read family name from serial
for (byte i = len; i < 30; i++) buffer[i] = ' '; // pad with spaces
block = 1;
//Serial.println(F("Authenticating using key A..."));
status = mfrc522.PCD_Authenticate(MFRC522::PICC_CMD_MF_AUTH_KEY_A, block, &key, &(mfrc522.uid));
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("PCD_Authenticate() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
else Serial.println(F("PCD_Authenticate() success: "));
// Write block
status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Write(block, buffer, 16);
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("MIFARE_Write() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
else Serial.println(F("MIFARE_Write() success: "));
block = 2;
//Serial.println(F("Authenticating using key A..."));
status = mfrc522.PCD_Authenticate(MFRC522::PICC_CMD_MF_AUTH_KEY_A, block, &key, &(mfrc522.uid));
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("PCD_Authenticate() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
// Write block
status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Write(block, &buffer[16], 16);
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("MIFARE_Write() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
else Serial.println(F("MIFARE_Write() success: "));
// Ask personal data: First name
Serial.println(F("Type First name, ending with #"));
len = Serial.readBytesUntil('#', (char *) buffer, 20) ; // read first name from serial
for (byte i = len; i < 20; i++) buffer[i] = ' '; // pad with spaces
block = 4;
//Serial.println(F("Authenticating using key A..."));
status = mfrc522.PCD_Authenticate(MFRC522::PICC_CMD_MF_AUTH_KEY_A, block, &key, &(mfrc522.uid));
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("PCD_Authenticate() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
// Write block
status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Write(block, buffer, 16);
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("MIFARE_Write() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
else Serial.println(F("MIFARE_Write() success: "));
block = 5;
//Serial.println(F("Authenticating using key A..."));
status = mfrc522.PCD_Authenticate(MFRC522::PICC_CMD_MF_AUTH_KEY_A, block, &key, &(mfrc522.uid));
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("PCD_Authenticate() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
// Write block
status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Write(block, &buffer[16], 16);
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.print(F("MIFARE_Write() failed: "));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
else Serial.println(F("MIFARE_Write() success: "));
Serial.println(" ");
mfrc522.PICC_HaltA(); // Halt PICC
mfrc522.PCD_StopCrypto1(); // Stop encryption on PCD
}
After hooking up the OLED display, you can now display the names of people at your table who have access.